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

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:14:45PM +0200, Christian Kellermann wrote:
> 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

Yep

> - why not move all the alist stuff *into* srfi-1 even our extensions to it?

This grumpy robot thinks that would be really confusing; let's keep the
SRFI modules clean versions of the SRFI.

In any case, this change would require going through the CR process as
it would cause massive widespread breakage when implemented.

> The patch as it is is OK by me.

Yes, the patch looks good.

Cheers,
Peter
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