Re: emacs-25 2460cfa: * doc/lispref/lists.texi (Association Lists): Document 'alist-get'.

[Yuri Khan]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:59 PM, John Wiegley <address@hidden> wrote:

> We could start adding something like this at the bottom of such functions:
>
>   Invocations of this function may be used as a place expression to `setf'.
>
> That is, if we wish to encourage `setf' use. The other possibility is to add
> documentation to the Elisp manual where it describes `setf', and list all the
> functions that may be used by it. I have a feeling that would reach your
> intended audience better than extending the docstring for `alist-get'.

Good documentation advertises relationships between separately
documented entities at both ends.