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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>,
	"Philipp Stephani" <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,
	"Nicolas Petton" <nicolas@petton.fr>,
	"47425@debbugs.gnu.org" <47425@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#47425: 26.3; `plist-get', `plist-put' should accept a TEST function
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:39:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB54885100CE33CBAA9E9887ABF3B99@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874k06wa5z.fsf@gnus.org>

> > I'd be curious to hear of a use case where plists are better than
> > alists while at the same time requiring a non-eq comparison.
> 
> They're equivalent in features, yes, but people prefer plists for
> simple structures because they look nicer.  I'd say they've proven
> their popularity over half a century.

Yes, it's about recognizing that reality.

Unless you're going to somehow _prevent_ the
use of plists with keys that are other than,
e.g., symbols - in particular keys that are
strings, adding a TEST arg makes sense, IMO.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-27 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-26 22:13 bug#47425: 26.3; `plist-get', `plist-put' should accept a TEST function Drew Adams
2021-03-26 22:16 ` Drew Adams
2021-03-27  7:16 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-28 13:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-28 16:43   ` bug#47425: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-28 19:20   ` Philipp
2021-03-28 19:27     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-27 10:22       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-27 11:31 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-06-27 11:43   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-27 12:18     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-27 12:27       ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-06-27 12:44         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-27 13:28           ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-06-27 13:35             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-27 15:11               ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-27 15:18                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-27 14:39             ` Drew Adams
2022-06-27 14:39         ` Drew Adams
2022-06-27 12:41       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-27 14:39         ` Drew Adams [this message]
2022-06-27 14:39       ` Drew Adams
2022-06-27 15:09         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-27 17:07           ` Drew Adams
2022-06-27 17:19             ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-06-27 17:22               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-28 15:23                 ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-28 15:40                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-29  3:33                 ` bug#47425: 26.3; `plist-get', `plist-put' and proposed " Richard Stallman
2022-06-29  5:11                   ` Drew Adams
2022-06-30  3:10                     ` Richard Stallman
2022-06-27 17:41               ` bug#47425: 26.3; `plist-get', `plist-put' should accept a " Drew Adams

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