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Re: map.el documentation


From: Robert Pluim
Subject: Re: map.el documentation
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 11:51:05 +0100

>>>>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:44:36 -0500, chad <yandros@gmail.com> said:

    chad> All of this sounded very familiar, and I'm pretty sure that it's been
    chad> discussed
    chad> before. A search through the emacs-devel archive (which has some known
    chad> issues) revealed, as an example:

    chad>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-12/msg00297.html

    chad> ...which begins:

    chad> The current handling of map-put on lists is very ad-hoc:
    >> The gv-expander of `map-elt` tests if the arg is a list and if so
    >> delegates to `alist-get`.
    >> It kind of works, but for a library that's supposed to be generic and
    >> expandable to other map types, this is undesirable.


    chad> I hope that helps. If not, sorry for the noise.

Thanks for that. It will help us avoid re-hashing the same arguments
(I hope)

Robert
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