Re: plist-put: destructive?

[tomas]

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On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 12:30:49PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The code I'm working has many repeated clauses looking like:
> >
> > (when thing1
> >   (setq the-plist (plist-put the-plist :thing thing1)))
> 
> FWIW, I've found that such code can often advantageously be turned
> into a non-side-effecting form like:
> 
>    (let ((the-plist
>           (nconc
>            (when thing1 (list :key1 thing1))
>            (when thing2 (list :key2 thing2))
>            ...)))

Thanks for this one! I positively know I've been struggling for
something like that, only to come up with a far clumsier variant.

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