Tianxiang Xiong <tianxiang.xiong@gmail.com> schrieb am Mo., 11. Dez. 2017
um 11:32 Uhr:

> Emacs 26 introduces records, which have a print representation
> <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/doc/lispref/records.texi#n27>
> starting with `#s`, followed by a list of contents.
>
> This seems similar to the print representation of hash tables:
>
> (make-hash-table)
> ;; => #s(hash-table size 65 test eql rehash-size 1.5 rehash-threshold 0.8
> data ( ...))
>
> Is this merely "coincidence", or is there some deeper meaning? If not,
> isn't it confusing to have two different objects w/ such similar print
> representations?
>

Yes, it's confusing, and I'm very much against it. Interpretation of ELisp
code (even compiled code) now changes in a very subtle manner depending on
whether a record named `hash-table` happens to be defined or not.