From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-25 2460cfa: * doc/lispref/lists.texi (Association Lists): Document 'alist-get'. Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:08:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20160116143238.27391.97533@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <8737ttx5dm.fsf@web.de> <83oachbgz0.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb6pih39.fsf@web.de> <83h9i9besq.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvs1ieql.fsf@web.de> <83bn8hbcpp.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8o1ics6.fsf@web.de> <838u3lbbe8.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb6osb0o.fsf@web.de> <87h9i86tke.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453327731 27610 80.91.229.3 (20 Jan 2016 22:08:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 20 23:08:42 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1aM0vi-0007Gm-7d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 23:08:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45244 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aM0vh-0007t4-Cq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:08:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59348) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aM0vc-0007se-UQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:08:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aM0vZ-0007VM-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:08:36 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:60778) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aM0vZ-0007VG-HX; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:08:33 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id u0KM8WRT004921; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:08:32 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CF3F4602D8; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:08:32 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87h9i86tke.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:37:21 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5556=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <5556> : inlines <4204> : streams <1574192> : uri <2123886> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198462 Archived-At: >> > @Stefan: can you enlighten us why you didn't initially do this? >> 'Cause I don't know how. > I don't understand...what don't you know? How to provide a function that does the core work of (setf (alist-get ..) ...), such that it can be used in the expanded code and ideally even independently. Stefan