Re: master ae4171efdc6: Support numeric indexing in let-alist

Re: master ae4171efdc6: Support numeric indexing in let-alist

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:56:05 -0400 (EDT), Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> said:

    Stefan> branch: master
    Stefan> commit ae4171efdc60dfa53aa404e5926f5165dbf98d59
    Stefan> Author: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
    Stefan> Commit: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>

    Stefan>     Support numeric indexing in let-alist
    
    Stefan>     let-alist is very useful.  But sometimes an alist contains a list in
    Stefan>     the middle, which contains yet more alists.  Previously, this was
    Stefan>     somewhat painful to deal with, and required something like:
    
    Stefan>     (let-alist alist
    Stefan>       (let-alist (nth 0 .a)
    Stefan>         (let-alist (nth 3 .b)
    Stefan>            .c)))
    
    Stefan>     Now, the following works:
    
    Stefan>     (let-alist alist
    Stefan>       .a.0.b.3.c)
    
    Stefan>     * lisp/emacs-lisp/let-alist.el (let-alist--access-sexp): Properly
    Stefan>     parse numbers to handle lists.  (Bug#66509)
    Stefan>     (let-alist--list-to-sexp): Use nth to handle numbers.
    Stefan>     (let-alist): Update docs.

Would it be possible to update the elisp manual as well (and maybe add
an entry to NEWS)?

Robert
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