Re: alist-get in Emacs 24?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Yes, with such (destructive) functions, if you have a variable
> pointing to the list (empty or not), you do need to re-set it
> to the result returned by the function.  But that's all, AFAIK.

Our views just differ in whether you think of a `setter' as already
including the above (undoubtedly necessary) "res-set" operation or not.
I understood "setter" as the term is used for (generalized) variables
like in gv.el.

What I meant is that just passing by value is not sufficient, you have
to set a symbol's value somewhere.  With regard to that, no, this is not
different from `delete'.


Michael.