Re: [ELPA] New package: transient

[Richard Stallman]

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  > What's an alist?  It's a list.  What's a (true)
  > list?  It's a sequence.

  > `copy-sequence' (aka `copy-seq') also copies an
  > alist.

'copy-sequence' is usually not an adequate way to copy an alist.
It copies the backbone but not the associations.
When you modify the associations -- which you presumably intend to do --
the two copies will both be changed.

To copy an alist properly, you need to use 'copy-alist',
and that is why we added that function.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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