Subject: Re: bug#34842: 26.1; Alist documentation: let-alist

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 04:48:11 +0200

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Thanks.  The following constitute what I think are some opportunities
> for clarifying the current doc.  WDYT?

Looks good to me, but:

> +@samp{.} are bound.  Each such @var{.symbol} is bound to the @sc{cdr}
> +of the first association for @var{symbol} in @var{alist} using
> +@code{assq}.  If no such association exists, @var{.symbol} is bound to
> +@code{nil}:
>
> +@lisp
> +(let-alist colors
> +  .tulip)
> +     @result{} nil
> +@end lisp

This bit seems superfluous.  (cdr (assq ...)) is nil when no such
association exists, but this makes it sound like that's a special case
somehow...

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