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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Kaushal <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Update assq-delete-all to support keys of string type
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 09:13:16 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2252v37.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFyQvY2Mp8YCjYam1gL+w5sicx5L1BLgPaAQmsZMKOcaL_megw@mail.gmail.com>

Kaushal writes:

 > I wanted to use assq-delete-all to remove all elements in an alist whose
 > car matched a string.

Aside: "assq" means to use the test `eq' when comparing keys.  You
would name this function `assoc-delete-all' if you just want to permit
strings as well as symbols and numbers (as the suggestion to use
cl-remove does).

 > (defun assq-delete-all-string (key-str alist)

In this version, where you restrict to string, I would name it
`string-assoc-delete-all' or `assoc-string-delete-all'.

I don't know if it makes sense to perpetuate the traditional names
with the availabilty of cl-lib.




      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-13  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-12 14:57 Update assq-delete-all to support keys of string type Kaushal
2015-05-12 17:02 ` John Mastro
2015-05-12 17:09   ` Kaushal
2015-05-13  0:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]

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