Re: Hash tables

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:12:38PM +0100, Nick Roberts wrote:
> but I want to pass some arguments to gdb-var-operation. I plan to change
> maphash to:
> 
> (maphash FUNCTION TABLE &optional ARGS)
> 
> so that FUNCTION gets called with KEY, VALUE and ARGS.
> 
> This won't be an easy task for me so I'd like some reassurance that its
> a) desirable and b) do-able.

The traditional way of doing this sort of thing in lisp is to bind variables
around the call to maphash, which your function can read (or write), e.g.:

   (let ((extra-info ...)
	 (total sum 0))
     (maphash
      (lambda (key val) 
	(setq total (+ total (calculate-stuff key val extra-info))))
      some-hash-table))

-Miles
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