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

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

John Fremlin <john at fremlin.org> writes:

> Dear Alexandrians,
>
> "Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tcr at freebits.de> writes:
>>> 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.