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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it safe to modify a property list directly with PLIST-PUT?
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:58:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpn7wfct.fsf@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ab2rs8kv.fsf@iki.fi

On 2009-07-26 19:38 (+0300), Teemu Likonen wrote:

>     ((:foo "one" :bar "two")
>      (:foo "three" :bar "New value"))

> The question: Is this reliable? Is it guaranteed that it will always
> modify the list correctly? If not, how would you suggest doing it
> instead?

Ah, Emacs Lisp manual effectively says that it's not guaranteed. So,
what would be the best way to modify single values in a list like the
above?


 -- Function: plist-put plist property value
     This stores VALUE as the value of the PROPERTY property in the
     property list PLIST.  It may modify PLIST destructively, or it may
     construct a new list structure without altering the old.  The
     function returns the modified property list, so you can store that
     back in the place where you got PLIST.  For example,

(elisp) Other Plists


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-26 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-26 16:38 Is it safe to modify a property list directly with PLIST-PUT? Teemu Likonen
2009-07-26 16:58 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2009-07-26 17:51   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-26 20:07 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-27  5:59   ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-27  8:31     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-27 17:45       ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-27 20:17         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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