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From: Tianxiang Xiong <tianxiang.xiong@gmail.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Print representation of records and hash tables
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 02:32:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACMkxizkzFEJXdyt2iHuL5A=xH4bc1zoawtxfTLNB6xrM-u9Sg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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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?

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             reply	other threads:[~2017-12-11 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-11 10:32 Tianxiang Xiong [this message]
2017-12-11 21:20 ` Print representation of records and hash tables Philipp Stephani
2017-12-12 15:21   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-12 17:12     ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-12-12 20:22       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-14  3:33         ` Tianxiang Xiong
2017-12-14 14:19           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-14  5:22         ` Ted Zlatanov

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