bug#25929: 25.2; map-delete doesn't delete permanently 1st alist elt

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> It's also fine to say (setq foo (map-delete foo 'bar)) if foo is hash
> table, right?

Sure, but then this isn't a very convenient form to use at all.
Everybody who uses hash tables will use the old form, which makes this
generalisation useless in practice.

I'm not quite sure what the objection to map-delete being a macro is...

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