From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Print representation of records and hash tables Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:19:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87efnz7tw6.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513261231 6502 195.159.176.226 (14 Dec 2017 14:20:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:20:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 14 15:20:24 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ePUN5-0001KM-UL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:20:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41215 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePUND-0004rB-19 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:20:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35482) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePUN2-0004qz-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:20:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePUMx-0007q6-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:20:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36179 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePUMw-0007p7-NR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:20:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ePUMm-0000VU-TP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:20:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:UGIOhhgxYBQNZnqYgiUEF5jIHVk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:221053 Archived-At: > @Stefan, perhaps it'd be helpful to explain *why* `#s` was chosen. Why not? It makes no sense to have a record type `hash-table` because that type is already used for something else, so there's no ambiguity for `#s(hash-table` Basically, the general syntax is `#s( )` where is interpreted depending on . > I'd guess it's to fit with the `#s` read macro for structures > in CL? I don't think it attempts to really be compatible with this, but yes, it was inspired by it. Stefan