Re: [PATCH] Add procedures to convert alists into hash tables

[Mark H Weaver]

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I think it would make sense to implement them in Scheme, say in
>> ice-9/hash-table.scm, which could be either a separate module or a file
>> included from boot-9.scm.
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> Does anyone else feel that this is a better approach?

FWIW, I think Ludovic is right.  There's no compelling reason to write
these procedures in C, and it would be good to reduce the amount of C
code for several reasons.  However, unlike ttn, I think it would be good
to have these procedures in core Guile.

      Mark