".%c2.п." via "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" <bug-guile@gnu.org> writes:
> The thread and all replies were in 2018. Six years later, in 2024, Anyone > opening the up-to-date online manual still sees the old bad code there! The > manual is not adjusted even though previous emails had pointed the cause and > solution out! > Today, the page has a valid link of > https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Alist-Example.html and still > contains > > 6.6.20.6 Alist Example > > Here is a longer example of how alists may be used in practice. > (define capitals '(("New York" . "Albany") ("Oregon" . > "Salem") ("Florida" . "Miami"))) ;; What's the capital of > Oregon? (assoc "Oregon" capitals) ⇓ ("Oregon" . "Salem") (assoc-ref > capitals "Oregon") ⇓ "Salem" ;; We left out South Dakota. (set! capitals > (assoc-set! capitals "South Dakota" "Pierre")) capitals ⇓ (("South Dakota" > . "Pierre") ("New York" . "Albany") ("Oregon" . "Salem") > ("Florida" . "Miami")) ;; And we got Florida wrong. (set! capitals > (assoc-set! capitals "Florida" "Tallahassee")) capitals ⇓ (("South Dakota" . > "Pierre") ("New York" . "Albany") ("Oregon" . "Salem") ("Florida" > . "Tallahassee")) ;; After Oregon secedes, we can remove it. (set! capitals > (assoc-remove! capitals "Oregon")) capitals ⇓ (("South Dakota" . > "Pierre") ("New York" . "Albany") ("Florida" . "Tallahassee")) > > > > > > > 深圳大学 > > 陈 > 有骏 Your message is really hard to read, I cannot make heads or tails of the formatting. Could you please resend it formatted in a normal way? In particular, wrapping your text to 72 characters and properly formatting the code example will improve the readability a lot. Have a nice day, Tomas Volf -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
