From: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,
Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Philipp Stephani <phst@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new function to test whether a key is present in a hash table.
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:29:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPM58oh+1TO4WCGGA94Zee1EYic=xWwNK+uStTpTDD-sROJNyw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m237215svl.fsf@newartisans.com>
On 16 February 2018 at 06:51, John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "DA" == Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
> DA> 2. The function name should have `key' in it, I think. Suggestion:
> DA> `hash-table-contains-key-p' or even just `hash-table-key-p'.
>
> It seems a bit strange that the name isn't something like "hashash", since
> knowing "puthash" and "gethash" would never help you guess
> hash-table-contains-key-p.
Or "testhash"? And maybe "tryhash" or "try-gethash" for a function that
returns a cons or "slot" of some kind.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-18 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <<20180215203406.64372-1-phst@google.com>
2018-02-15 22:08 ` [PATCH] Add new function to test whether a key is present in a hash table Drew Adams
2018-02-15 23:35 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-02-16 6:51 ` John Wiegley
2018-02-18 14:29 ` Richard Copley [this message]
2018-02-19 6:02 ` John Wiegley
2018-02-19 17:26 ` Drew Adams
2018-02-15 20:34 Philipp Stephani
2018-02-15 22:03 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-04-19 17:33 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-02-15 22:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-16 1:03 ` Drew Adams
2018-02-16 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-16 2:50 ` Drew Adams
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