Subject: Re: bug#35206: [PATCH] Misleading `list-get' argument description

From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:26:09 +0200

9 apr. 2019 kl. 13.00 skrev Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>:
> 
> Neither "look up" nor "equality" is directly and obviously related to
> "associated with".  E.g., you probably like "equality" better because
> your mental model of "associated with" is a test for equality;
> however, someone else might prefer the current text because they think
> of "looking up" in the same situation.  But the text doesn't make the
> relation explicit, and that is IMO its main problem.

Good point. What about:

Comparison of KEY against the car of each ALIST element
is made using TESTFN, or `eq' if nil or omitted.