Re: screwy alist syntax

[Stephen Compall]

Brian S McQueen <address@hidden> writes:

> I just noticed something that looks screwy.  Is there a good reason for
> the following?
> 
> The assq func take a key and an alist:
> 
> assq key alist
> ...
> BUT the assq-ref func take an alist and a key, which is the opposite
> order:
> 
> assq-ref alist key
> ...

Just making up stuff here, but I think that `assq' et al are historic
Lisp functions, and so were left as they were.  However, `assq-ref' et
al are new, so can have the `right' order.  They aren't in Emacs,
anyway.

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