RE: [ELPA] New package: transient

[Drew Adams]

>   > 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.

Oh, right; forgot.  Thx.

(setq foo '((a . A))) ; foo is ((a . A))

(setq titi (copy-alist foo)) ; titi is ((a . A))
(setcdr (car titi) 'AA)      ; titi is ((a . AA))

foo is still ((a . A))

(setq bar (copy-sequence foo)) ; bar is ((a . A))
(setcdr (car bar) 'AA)         ; bar is ((a . AA))

foo is now   ((a . AA))