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bug#35206: [PATCH] Misleading `list-get' argument description
From: |
Mattias Engdegård |
Subject: |
bug#35206: [PATCH] Misleading `list-get' argument description |
Date: |
Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:26:09 +0200 |
9 apr. 2019 kl. 13.00 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>
> Neither "look up" nor "equality" is directly and obviously related to
> "associated with". E.g., you probably like "equality" better because
> your mental model of "associated with" is a test for equality;
> however, someone else might prefer the current text because they think
> of "looking up" in the same situation. But the text doesn't make the
> relation explicit, and that is IMO its main problem.
Good point. What about:
Comparison of KEY against the car of each ALIST element
is made using TESTFN, or `eq' if nil or omitted.