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| From: | Drew Adams |
| Subject: | RE: plist-based package.el (was Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests and no external tar!) |
| Date: | Wed, 5 Jun 2013 10:56:54 -0700 (PDT) |
> 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. Hm. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/universal-design-pattern.html. And then there's JSON... And "big data" generally... Maybe you meant something specific about Emacs-Lisp plists? Or were you really speaking generally about key+value pairs?
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