bug#75364: closed (Manual: Alist example does not work)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Manual: Alist example does not work Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 16:59:15 +0100 User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

I run 

(define capitals '(("New York" . "Albany")
                   ("Oregon"   . "Salem")
                   ("Florida"  . "Miami")))

followed by

(set! capitals
      (assoc-set! capitals "Florida" "Tallahassee"))

and get

"ice-9/boot-9.scm:1676:22: In procedure raise-exception:
In procedure set-cdr!: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting mutable pair): ("Florida" . "Miami")

Entering a new prompt.  Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue."

(In geiser in emacs on Arch)

Warning: In my own code it actually worked on and off.

Work-around: Use

(define capitals (list (cons "New York"  "Albany")
                       (cons "Oregon"   . "Salem")
                       (cons "Florida"  . "Miami")))

apparently quoted lists are not mutable!

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#75364: Manual: Alist example does not work Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 00:34:32 +0100

This is a duplicate of  https://bugs.gnu.org/32841 which was fixed in 818b879b2e481943340e86dbb5b93f12021206c5.

The online manual should update when 3.0.11 is released. 

Regards

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