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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: plist-based package.el (was Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests and no external tar!) |
| Date: | Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:41:29 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> provides a good data API, while a pure-plist approach is inherently less
> stable as an API.
plists are OK as a "UI" elements (e.g. like the CL style :key arguments
in macro and function calls). But as data-structures, they suck rocks.
The only other data structure that comes to mind as being even worse are
strings.
Stefan
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