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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: One more question about elisp
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:50:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87my2zf3q0.fsf@kobe.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2iqdnwehh.fsf@gmail.com

On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:05:46 +0100, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:
>> • Elisp Lesson: Hash Table
>>   http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_hash_table.html
>
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> It sounds strange to me (knowing C, python) to use hash tables to
> structure data.

Python uses `dictionaries' (i.e. hashes) extensively, so it is not a
very alien idea to store the named `attributes' of an object in a
convenient to use data structure like a hash map :-)



      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-07  2:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-06 16:46 One more question about elisp Francis Moreau
2009-11-06 16:55 ` Joost Kremers
2009-11-06 20:59   ` Francis Moreau
2009-11-06 21:28     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-07  1:42     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-08 15:20       ` Francis Moreau
2009-11-08 16:12         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-09 21:14           ` Francis Moreau
2009-11-08 19:53         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-06 20:02 ` Xah Lee
2009-11-06 21:05   ` Francis Moreau
2009-11-06 21:13     ` David Kastrup
2009-11-07  1:40     ` LanX
2009-11-07  2:31       ` Barry Margolin
2009-11-07 14:41       ` Francis Moreau
2009-11-07 17:39         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-07 18:10         ` LanX
2009-11-08  9:53         ` tomas
     [not found]         ` <mailman.10267.1257674530.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-08 15:17           ` Francis Moreau
2009-11-08 16:01             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-09 20:43               ` Francis Moreau
2009-11-08 17:06             ` tomas
2009-11-07  2:50     ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]

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