GNU bug report logs - #34708
alist-get has unclear documentation

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Reported by: "Miguel V. S. Frasson" <mvsfrasson <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2019 04:52:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: 34708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34708: alist-get has unclear documentation
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 17:38:57 +0100

Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> I think it would be nice to have an example that shows both a common
> use-case (as an accumulator), and how to use REMOVE. I started off with
> the accumulator part:
>
> (let (word word-freq)
>   (while (setq word (pop word-list))
>     (cl-incf (alist-get word word-freq 0 #'equal) 1)))
>
> But so far haven't come up with a non-contrived way to work REMOVE in
> there...

And I guess you didn't really want to specify a function as REMOVE arg,
right?

Michael.
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