From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: let-alist can't deal with the keys which includes spaces. Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 20:17:32 +0200 Message-ID: <87wnpkyhmr.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87h7gpyp51.fsf@omarpolo.com> <20210720162013.GB14831@tuxteam.de> <87czrdylk6.fsf@zoho.eu> <20210720170828.GC14831@tuxteam.de> <875yx4zxg2.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30324"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:3vSwzEiFXx0USnNiX6Yonyt81y4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 20 20:18:40 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m5uKE-0007cs-QY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 20:18:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59948 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5uKD-00060z-Qk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:18:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38754) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5uJO-0005y2-Cw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:17:46 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:37360) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5uJM-00019R-WE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:17:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m5uJK-0006Zw-AZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 20:17:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131895 Archived-At: > 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) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal