GNU bug report logs - #47425
26.3; `plist-get', `plist-put' should accept a TEST function

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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 22:14:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>, Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>, 47425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#47425: 26.3; `plist-get', `plist-put' should accept a TEST function
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 08:18:04 -0400

Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-06-27 13:43:23] wrote:
> Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org> writes:
>> The cost of adding an equality predicate is not huge but also not
>> really motivated.
> The motivation is greater symmetry with assoc and friends.  That is,
> people have been forced to use alists where they'd more naturally prefer
> to use plists because of the eq restriction.

Then again, plists should never have existed, in my book.
They're just strictly worse than alists as datastructures.
Their only advantage is that sometimes when you write them by hand it
they're somewhat more compact (fewer dots and parentheses) but for those
cases `eq` is always good enough in my experience.

I'd be curious to hear of a use case where plists are better than alists
while at the same time requiring a non-eq comparison.


        Stefan
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