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Re: screwy alist syntax
From: |
Stephen Compall |
Subject: |
Re: screwy alist syntax |
Date: |
16 Apr 2004 16:04:53 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Brian S McQueen <address@hidden> writes:
> I just noticed something that looks screwy. Is there a good reason for
> the following?
>
> The assq func take a key and an alist:
>
> assq key alist
> ...
> BUT the assq-ref func take an alist and a key, which is the opposite
> order:
>
> assq-ref alist key
> ...
Just making up stuff here, but I think that `assq' et al are historic
Lisp functions, and so were left as they were. However, `assq-ref' et
al are new, so can have the `right' order. They aren't in Emacs,
anyway.
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