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

[Felix]

From: Moritz Heidkamp <address@hidden>
Subject: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Add non-destructive version of alist-update!
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:01:56 +0200

> 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, Moritz. Here a few suggestions:

- alist-update copies more of the argument list than necessary, it 
  only has to copy up to the first matching entry
- an entry for types.db is missing


cheers,
felix