Re: hash tables: print, read, print-readably
Uwe Brauer writes:
It was not very stable and maybe that is why Ted changed the
implementation entirely, using in some way hash tables, but the
consequence was/is that this nifty feature cannot be used any more in
Xemacs.
It can be used. Just bind the variable `print-readably' before
printing the hash-table.
It looks like `print-readably' is a no-op to Emacs, so you don't even
need a separate implementation (but the byte compiler will complain).
But there's a better way to do persistent hashes in XEmacs. See
`open-database'.
If I understand it correctly Steve is against such a feature
because it might cause problems in other places (and should so in
GNU Emacs). Is this correct?
No. The discussion I was having with Mike is not about how to print
hash-tables readably; he already knew how to do that when he posted.
It's about whether we should change the format of the unreadable
representation.
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