bug#32841: assoc-set fails with dot notation association list

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:03 PM Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:

 

To initialize an alist that will be mutated, you must instead do
something like this:

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

More simply, you can wrap the literal in a call to copy-tree.  This returns

a deep copy of the literal that is fully mutable.

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John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        address@hidden

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