Re: Down with weak lists!

>>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)arsdigita.com&gt; writes: Hrvoje> sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes: >> Reading back my own mail, I can see that I probably wasn't explicit >> enough about the interface change. Sorry about that. >> >> I'm suggesting that there be higher-level interfaces to weak-list-like >> data structures. >> >> - "Simple" weak lists have weak-list-car and weak-list-cdr. >> >> - The various types of weak alists have higher-level functions to >> access them like: >> >> weak-list-add-association >> weak-list-assq >> weak-list-assoc >> weak-list-map >> weak-list-mapc >> >> ... Hrvoje> Not to mention that things won't work with things like push, pushnew, Hrvoje> mapcar*, and oodles of nice things that works with normal lists. These kinds of things you don't really *want* to work with weak lists: They're fundamentally different from ordinary lists. I'd even want to remove WEAK-LIST-MAP. The ... was not meant to reflect that I'd want more accessors. EMPTY-WEAK-LIST and WEAK-LIST->LIST would probably be everything else that's required.