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bug#47368: 28.0.50; map-elt returns nil without "deprecated" TESTFN
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Basil L. Contovounesios |
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bug#47368: 28.0.50; map-elt returns nil without "deprecated" TESTFN |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 10:26:20 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Heerdegen [2021-09-15 02:48 +0200] wrote:
> "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:
>> What was the conclusion? That map-elt should use equal for alists?
>
> That was the least controversial solution discussed, at least to my
> impression.
>
> But would that include to change the default of `alist-get', too? I
> guess these should behave consistently.
That sounds a bit too radical to me within the scope of this bug report,
and for Emacs 28. Since alist-get has the type in its name, and allows
for a testfn argument, I personally don't see any conflict between
map-elt and alist-get having different default behaviour on alists.
> [ Personally I would still be interested in an answer to the question:
> why don't we consider to keep the TESTFN arg at least for the list map
> type case? ]
I don't feel too strongly either way, and it's not my decision, but I
guess the point is that if you already know that your map is an alist,
then you can "customise" the behaviour of map-elt by using a different
accessor function, since map.el wants to provide a type-agnostic API.
Thanks,
--
Basil