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From: Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Hash-tables containing references to hash-tables
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:12:22 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a116be4-52cb-482d-b555-09bc4950d5f7@31g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> (raw)

Is it possible for a hash-table to contain a *reference* to another
hash-table, similar to how we can build arbitrary graphs using conses/
lists and setf?
If so how? If not, is there reason for being so or is it just an emacs
todo?

If we have
  (puthash parent-key (make-hash-table : size CHILD-SIZE) parent-hash)
then I want
  (gethash parent-key parent-hash)
to return a *reference* to hash-table contained in parent-hash.

I already have a working code for this but I am uncertain how this
will perform when CHILD-SIZE is really large.

/Nordlöw


             reply	other threads:[~2009-11-23 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-23 11:12 Nordlöw [this message]
2009-11-23 12:41 ` Hash-tables containing references to hash-tables tomas
2009-11-23 14:10 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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