From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: hash-table-{to, from}-alist Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:40:49 -0400 Message-ID: <871vnyot6m.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <863aknitfg.fsf@lifelogs.com> <873ahkkkt5.fsf@xemacs.org> <20081122152126.GA4142@tomas> <87vdufk6do.fsf@xemacs.org> <867i6tt4yz.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bpw4k1z6.fsf@xemacs.org> <86bpw3d829.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87k5ari5jh.fsf@xemacs.org> <86prkiiia2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86ej0ygr5j.fsf@lifelogs.com> <861vwygpc6.fsf@lifelogs.com> <868wqzd06x.fsf@lifelogs.com> <867i6hrrh9.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86prk8q8yn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87eiry58qs.fsf@jumptrading.com> <87skge2dm6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ab2m562t.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248982991 24208 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2009 19:43:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:43:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 30 21:43:04 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWbUv-0001Ot-HX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:41:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWbUq-0007KR-0I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:41:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWbUl-0007KB-9i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:40:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWbUg-0007Jg-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:40:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50126 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWbUg-0007Jd-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po33.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.94]:59082) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWbUg-0001KA-HY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014244.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.244]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po33.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n6UJenK9015763 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:40:49 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C80ABC056; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:40:49 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87ab2m562t.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:22:34 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113418 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > OK. Can I use two names: "hashtable-read" and "hashtable-print" for the > feature? I can't think of a single name that doesn't sound clumsy > (suggestions welcome, of course). Just hashtable-read, I think. After all, hashtables already have a print representation (all Lisp objects do)---the present difficulty is that this print representation isn't readable.