From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Comparing hash table objects
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:45:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1nznNY-0008R6-Tb@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87leu7tsyc.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:17:31 +0800)
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It clearly can be useful to compare hash tables for equivalence
of contents. I see two ways to offer that facility:
* As a new function. That would be upward-compatible.
* By making `equal' compare them that way. That would fit the spirit
of `equal', but could break some existing uses of `equal'.
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2022-06-08 8:41 ` Comparing hash table objects Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-08 8:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-06-08 9:17 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-10 22:45 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-06-11 5:52 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-11 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-12 9:16 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-12 23:55 ` Sam Steingold
2022-06-13 13:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-13 16:18 ` Sam Steingold
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2023-09-09 12:12 ` compat.el and Emacs unstable master branch features (was: bug#63513: [PATCH] Make persist-defvar work with records and hash tables) Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-09 12:29 ` Daniel Mendler
2023-09-09 16:52 ` Joseph Turner
2023-09-11 8:45 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-12 10:02 ` compat.el and Emacs unstable master branch features Philip Kaludercic
2023-09-12 10:27 ` Daniel Mendler
2023-09-13 10:31 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-09-13 17:11 ` Daniel Mendler
2023-10-15 8:43 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-15 12:09 ` Philip Kaludercic
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