Re: plists, alists, and hashtables

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

RT> There may be alternatives though.  For example, instead of:
RT> #s(hash-table size 65 test eql rehash-size 1.5 rehash-threshold 0.8 data ())
RT> We could have a shorthand, perhaps #s(h data)

Is it really sufficiently better than the currently supported syntaxes
such as

   #s(hash-table data (a 2 b 3))

or

   ((a . 2) (b . 3))

?  I think it's going to be hard to convince that the few use cases will
be enough to justify all the work.


        Stefan