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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
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To: Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com>
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Hello,

Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com> writes:

> But one thing I do not understand. When you do an org-list-write-struct,
> you want to change the structure. So why is old-struct optional?

Good question.

IIRC, it's just syntactic sugar since `org-list-write-struct' will do
the `copy-tree' for you in most situations (i.e., when you don't use
a function that modifies structure by side-effect).


Regards,

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Nicolas Goaziou