Re: deep copy of an alist

[Klaus Berndl]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Edward O'Connor wrote:



> >>>>> "Klaus" == Klaus Berndl <Klaus.Berndl@sdm.de> writes:
>  
>   Klaus> Is there a function which makes a deep copy of an alist.
>   Klaus> AFAIK *copy-alist* makes no copies of the elements of the
>   Klaus> alist, i.e. the cars and cdrs of an element are shared...
>  
>  Doesn't `copy-tree' do what you want?

Thanks. I must have been blind.... :-)

Ciao,
klaus

>  
>  ,----[ C-h f copy-tree RET ]
> | copy-tree is an alias for `cl-copy-tree' in `cl-extra'.
> | (copy-tree TREE &optional VECP)
> | 
> | Make a copy of TREE.
> | If TREE is a cons cell, this recursively copies both its car and its cdr.
> | Contrast to copy-sequence, which copies only along the cdrs.  With second
> | argument VECP, this copies vectors as well as conses.
>  `----
>  
>  
>  Ted

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