From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: One more question about elisp Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:50:15 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87my2zf3q0.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <53781544-57b8-4cde-a07a-c3632d8bac7f@a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257565254 9672 80.91.229.12 (7 Nov 2009 03:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 03:40:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 07 04:40:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N6cAP-0003M1-TD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:40:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44505 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N6cAP-0002GA-Eh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:40:45 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:G/A+zse4x0CB7BB7pE8Egq3+E/k= Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 94.64.228.186 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=ESo7X[9ZUg3kVm3Q1RnDK5YSB=nbEKnk; B5eHL>g@_; 2GYG:0; 0_3?>o_>`WUg<`1:oJZA^dLN@m=ne`l9fR^k1=SNnog2\Lo43`SZ66Lb4 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69570 Archived-At: On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:05:46 +0100, Francis Moreau wrote: > Xah Lee 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 :-)