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bug#34708: alist-get has unclear documentation


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: bug#34708: alist-get has unclear documentation
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 02:35:57 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Yes, the syntax is a bit weird.  I think I would prefer to write it as
>
>   (setf (alist-get key my-alist nil 'remove) nil)

BTW, I also want to point you to map.el.  It has `map-elt' which is also
setf'able and also works for other kinds of maps (hash-tables in
particular), and a distinct `map-remove'.  I guess it's time to
advertise map.el functions a bit more (in the manual).

Michael.





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