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[PATCH] Misleading `list-get' argument description

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 35206 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35206: [PATCH] Misleading `list-get' argument description
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:26:09 +0200

9 apr. 2019 kl. 13.00 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
> 
> 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.

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