From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: plists, alists, and hashtables Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 07:51:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <876150vwaa.fsf@mbork.pl> <873803x5q4.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87a8u7we9s.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <877fp8t9ru.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lhdnsw2n.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87r3nejv8t.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439045722 15527 80.91.229.3 (8 Aug 2015 14:55:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 14:55:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 08 16:55:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZO5Wq-0002Np-05 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2015 16:55:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53036 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZO5Wp-0006Gb-3l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2015 10:55:19 -0400 X-Received: by 10.107.18.133 with SMTP id 5mr11526798ios.0.1439045492202; Sat, 08 Aug 2015 07:51:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.78.105 with SMTP id a9mr43649igx.1.1439045492148; Sat, 08 Aug 2015 07:51:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!se8no695189igc.0!news-out.google.com!nt1ni2625igb.0!nntp.google.com!se8no695188igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.35.119; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.35.119 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 14:51:32 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214069 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106354 Archived-At: On Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 7:12:07 PM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I think what you're getting at is that (core) Lisp is somewhat > >> "untyped", so alists/plists can't be distinguished from other data built > >> using cons-cells: only the user knows whether that cons cells is meant > >> to be an alist or a plist or something else. > > This is a strawman argument. > > No: it's not an argument at all, it's a simple statement of fact. What is arguable is the 'somewhat' :-)