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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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Subject: Re: plist-put: destructive?
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> Making something similar would just be the `gv-define-simple-setter'
> call I had in the original message, right?

Not if we want it to be reliable in the presence of empty plists.


        Stefan