Re: New assoc-let package

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 23:40:14 +0000 Artur Malabarba <address@hidden> wrote: 

AM> Simply put, the macro takes an alist and a body, and makes the data of
AM> the alist accessible by just writing the car of the desired cell
AM> preceded by a dot.
AM> For instance, the following:

AM>   (assoc-let alist
AM>     (if (and .title .body)
AM>         .body
AM>       .site))

AM> expands to

AM>   (let ((.title (cdr (assoc 'title alist)))
AM>         (.body (cdr (assoc 'body alist)))
AM>         (.site (cdr (assoc 'site alist))))
AM>     (if (and .title .body)
AM>         .body
AM>       .site))

I really, really like it.  Like a `destructuring-bind' for alists.

Should it maybe use `lexical-let'?

I hope it can go into the core so it's available by default.

Ted