Re: [alexandria-devel] cdr assoc (now called alist-get)

John Fremlin john@fremlin.org writes:

Dear Alexandrians,

"Tobias C. Rittweiler" tcr@freebits.de writes:

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I hope that was why you Alexandrians ignored me . . .

No ignoring, it's just the wrong phase of the moon right now.

Please consider the cdr-assoc again. It could be improved, which improvements would encourage you to view it more favourably?

It is pretty useful to be able to use alists as an alternative to a small hash table.

I agree. I personally don't like the two proposed names, though:

CDR-ASSOC, ALIST-GET

Others I've come up with are

ALIST-REF, GETA

my personal favorite would be

ASSOC-VALUE

-T.