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Re: plist-put modification by side effect
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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Re: plist-put modification by side effect |
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Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:02:42 +0100 |
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() Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
() Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:06:30 -0500
I don't get this. It says the plist is altered by side
effects. So what's with the "but just to be extra careful
use (setq ...)" advice?
If PROP is in PLIST, the natural side-effecting operation is
to splice in the VALUE at the position of the old value. Ok,
fine. Now, what if PROP is not in PLIST? How might you
implement that? How might you implement that, differently?
How might your design decision surprise the unwary caller?
thi