GNU bug report logs - #25929
25.2; map-delete doesn't delete permanently 1st alist elt

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 07:19:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.2

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #71 received at 25929 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, 25929 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#25929: 25.2;
 map-delete doesn't delete permanently 1st alist elt
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:02:39 -0400

> Making map-delete signal an error in the
> alist-where-bar-is-the-first-element sounds even worse to me, since the
> user may already be writing this stuff as (setq foo (map-delete foo
> 'bar)).
> (I think this was what Stefan suggested...)

Good catch, no, what I'm suggesting is to signal an error when
map-delete is called on an alist (forcing the user to use map-remove
for that instead).


        Stefan
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