From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Two questions about generalized variables
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:19:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87si0kktax.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 878u2e9bsn.fsf@web.de
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I didn't mean symbol property lists! Just the plain old '(:key1 "value1"
>> :key2 "value2") kind. They're useful for a few different things -- in
>> this case, initializing class instances.
>
> Oh, I see. Hmm, one could define a place expander quite similarly to
> the one of `alist-get', I think, but it doesn't seem one to be
> predefined, indeed.
Right, that was my question, I guess -- I would do this with
`gv-define-setter', right? Its docstring is a bit impenetrable, but if
that's the right place to start I can figure it out.
>> >> The second question is setting hashtable entries. Right now I have code
>> >> like this:
>> >>
>> >> (setf (gethash uuid my-hashtable)
>> >> (append (list (list 'thingone 'thingtwo))
>> >> (gethash uuid my-hashtable)))
>> >
>> > Isn't that more or less `push'?
>>
>> I started off with `push', but the code in question doesn't know if the
>> key exists or not, and you can't push to nil.
>
> The gv setter is calculated using the (unevaluated) place expression, so
> "pushing to nil" doesn't happen. See the gv-expander of `alist-get' for
> example, which of course also works for nonexistent keys.
Ah, of course! It's pushing to a place, not a value, that's the whole
point. Thank you for turning the light on there.
Last question: How do I actually see the gv-expander of `alist-get'?
Where is that?
Thanks again,
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-23 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-21 5:16 Two questions about generalized variables Eric Abrahamsen
2016-02-21 8:08 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-02-21 13:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-21 15:01 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-02-21 18:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-23 3:19 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2016-02-23 13:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-24 2:03 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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