Re: Check whether an object is an alist

[Heime]

On Wednesday, September 18th, 2024 at 4:21 PM, tomas@tuxteam.de 
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 09:25:44PM +0000, Heime wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > After changing to the following, I am getting validation for list
> > > element (1 2 3), even though it is not an association.
> > > 
> > > (defun torium-alist-p (obj)
> > > "Return t if object OBJ is an association list (alist)."
> > > (and (listp obj)
> > > (cl-every (lambda (x) #'consp) obj)))
> > 
> > I remember. No requirements of lambda to run #'consp on obj
> 
> 
> Much more important: /why/ are you "getting a validation" for list '(1 2 3)
> with the above form and...
> 
> > (defun torium-alist-p (obj)
> > "Return t if object OBJ is an association list (alist)."
> > (and (listp obj)
> > (cl-every #'consp obj)))
> 
> 
> ...(probably, you didn't tell us) not with this one?
> 
> Why are they different?
> 
> Cheers
> --
> t

Have solved the problem.  Was not with that one, but that one solved the 
problem.


Felicitations