From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: let-alist can't deal with the keys which includes spaces.
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 20:17:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnpkyhmr.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 875yx4zxg2.fsf@zoho.eu
> The docstring is confusing IMO, your example so-so but
> better because of the initial "`let-alist' is just a handy
> way to destructure an alist" line, but why not just put it
> like this?
>
> (setq numbers '((one . 1)
> (two . 2)
> (three . 3)
> (four . 4) ))
>
> (let-alist numbers
> (list .one .two .three .four) ) ; (1 2 3 4)
Or even better, because that's how it is supposed to be used,
right, instead of `let' or as a variety thereof?
(let-alist '((one . 1)
(two . 2)
(three . 3)
(four . 4) )
(list .one .two .three .four) ) ; (1 2 3 4)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-20 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-20 11:12 let-alist can't deal with the keys which includes spaces Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-20 12:49 ` tomas
2021-07-20 13:21 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-20 14:56 ` tomas
2021-07-20 15:35 ` Omar Polo
2021-07-20 16:20 ` tomas
2021-07-20 16:52 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 17:08 ` tomas
2021-07-20 17:50 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 18:17 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-07-21 7:29 ` tomas
2021-07-21 8:46 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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