[alexandria-devel] Moving to next stage

[Attila Lendvai]

> > on this note, we should/could add a REMOVE-FROM-ALIST and their
> > DELETE-FROM... counterparts.
>
> I agree.


i've added the missing delete-from-plist and their modify macro
variants. i'm not sure about the alist versions, though: what should
be their api? plists are usually used with symbols as keys, so using
#'eq for comparison is ok, but alists are mostly addressed by
non-symbols, so the (alist &rest keys) api is not too useful without a
:test argument. because of this i've skipped them for now.


>  > i personally would be ok if they worked so that when called with NIL
>  > they would always return T (so NIL would be taken as an empty
>  > sequence). and if we added FIRST-ELEMENT/LAST-ELEMENT then people
>  > could use them to test if a sequence start and/or ends with NIL as an
>  > element.
>
> Would STARTS-WITH-SUBSEQ and ENDS-WITH-SUBSEQ work for you?


yep, i've added them. everybody, feel free to excercise your veto
rights even with an UNDO patch, i won't take it as an offense! this is
how the Alexandria project is planned to work...

-- 
 attila