Re: hash tables: print, read, print-readably
Mike Kupfer writes:
It may not be a problem for someone who's familiar with the
idiosyncrasies of XEmacs Lisp, but this was my first exposure to Lisp
hash tables, and I found it confusing.
The only answer I have to that is RTFM. :-( Hash tables are simple in
concept, and complex in implementation. AFAICT efficiency requires
exposing a bit of the complexity (the :size parameter) to the user.
The printed representation you seem to want is a plain plist[1] (which I
agree with, of course -- that's what I suggested, too). However, all
of the pieces of the current representation are useful.
If you have a bone to pick with TFM, let me know and I'll fix it (and
"patches welcome", of course).
Footnotes:
[1] Plus some syntactic sugar to tell the Lisp reader this is a hash
table.
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