Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Add non-destructive version of alist-update!

[Christian Kellermann]

* Moritz Heidkamp <address@hidden> [110907 17:03]:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to continue with Christian's initiative. Find attached a simple
> patch that adds a non-destructive version of alist-update! named
> (obviously) alist-update to the data-structures unit. It also updates
> the manual accordingly and adds a few test cases for both alist-update!
> and alist-update. Since the patch is so trivial I won't discuss it in
> detail, just take a look and you'll get the idea :-)

Thanks! We just had a little chat on IRC about this. For the records
let me summarise:

- the patch does basically what alist-copy does in srfi-1
- why not move all the alist stuff *into* srfi-1 even our extensions to it?

The patch as it is is OK by me.

OK, ckeen@ and the happy robots.

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