From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 32841@debbugs.gnu.org, Christopher.Hood@gtri.gatech.edu
Subject: bug#32841: assoc-set fails with dot notation association list
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_RxPVhDxLt_Np_XMP=r2QxY5zVbW-+W65znqqA1f-+Y8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhw3d4na.fsf@netris.org>
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:03 PM Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
> To initialize an alist that will be mutated, you must instead do
> something like this:
>
> (define capitals (list (cons "New York" "Albany")
> (cons "Oregon" "Salem")
> (cons "Florida" "Miami")))
>
More simply, you can wrap the literal in a call to copy-tree. This returns
a deep copy of the literal that is fully mutable.
--
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
Here lies the Christian, judge, and poet Peter,
Who broke the laws of God and man and metre.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-25 20:33 bug#32841: assoc-set fails with dot notation association list Hood, Christopher L.
2018-09-25 22:04 ` John Cowan
2018-09-27 3:02 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-27 12:09 ` John Cowan [this message]
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