Re: functional hash operations

[Christopher Cramer]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:29:38PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Sometimes it would be useful to have functional operations on hashes:
> "make a copy of this hash which also has this additional entry", etc.
> It would also be nice to make such copies share as much memory as
> possible with the original hash.  This is easy enough to do by taking
> advantage of the knowledge of the representation of hashes as vectors
> of alists, but is it safe to assume that representation?  Or might the
> representation change in the future?

It's hard for me to imagine any other good representation, so I don't
think it will change. OTOH if you want more operations on hash tables
it might not be a bad idea to get them included in Guile.

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