Re: plists, alists, and hashtables

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> Right. I agree. My point was different: there is no "keys" function for
> alists and plists.  Keys in those two formats are a convention.

Also, there's rassoc!

    (let ((alist '((:one . 1) (:two . 2) (:three . 3))))
       (list (cdr (assoc  :two alist))
             (car (rassoc 1 alist))))
    --> (2 :one)

Do that with a hash-table!!!

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