Re: How to populate a property list?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Hattuari wrote:
> I don't know what to make of this then:
>
> edition 2.9 of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, corresponding to GNU
> Emacs version 21.3, ?8.4.1 Property Lists and Association Lists
> ------------------------------------------
> "Association lists (*note Association Lists::) are very similar to
> property lists.  In contrast to association lists, the order of the
> pairs in the property list is not significant since the property names
> must be distinct."

The documentation focuses almost completely on property lists attached
to the property list cell of a symbol.  Only the "Other Plists" node
(aka Property Lists Outside Symbols) discusses disembodied property
lists (as the are known in other Lisp dialects).  Note that you will
never get a property with duplicate keys if you construct it solely with
put and plist-put.

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Kevin Rodgers