Re: Structured data in Emacs Lisp

[Ian Zimmerman]

Denis> You could use a plist:
Denis> 
Denis> (:key1 1 :key2 2)
Denis> 
Denis> Then to get a particular value:
Denis> 
Denis> (getf '(:key1 1 :key2 2) :key1) => 1
Denis> 

Jim> Or you could use defstruct [also in 'cl]

I don't know how many different structures you have.  If not too many, I
would just use lists (or even better, vectors) and for each field define
an accessor macro:

(defsubst get-key1 (result) (nth 0 result))

or

(defsubst get-key1 (result) (aref result 0))

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