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add-to-alist: new function

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 75170 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75170: add-to-alist: new function
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 02:06:44 +0100

Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Actually, I just read the docstring from alist-get a couple of times.
> And the meaning of the optional arg REMOVE is not clear to me: what is
> the "new value" of an association if the key is removed from the
> alist?

"new value" refers to the second argument of your `setf' call.  The
association is removed if you set the associated value to the default
value (nil most of the time) and if REMOVE had been specified.


Michael.

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