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25.2; map-delete doesn't delete permanently 1st alist elt

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 25929 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#25929: 25.2; plists and map-*
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:25:46 +0200

A thing just occurred to me: Does the map-* functions work for plists,
too?  plists are, like, the fourth major mapping structure we have in
Lisp.

Wouldn't it be easy to extend map-* to handle plists, too?  For
instance, map-delete (of course) knows whether it's looking at a hash
table or an array, but it can also easily distinguish between an alist
and a plist by just looking at the first element, can't it?

It's a bit hacky, though.  But might be nice.

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