From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: hash strangeness Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 20:48:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87k33d30ky.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414961453 4698 80.91.229.3 (2 Nov 2014 20:50:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 20:50:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 02 21:50:46 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xl26m-0002jJ-QN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:50:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59228 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xl26m-0000xs-4F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:50:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34333) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xl26J-0000uh-1I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:50:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xl26C-0004CO-Vl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:50:14 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47901) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xl26C-0004CH-Q9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:50:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xl267-0002X9-IT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:50:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 94-21-242-67.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.242.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:50:03 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-242-67.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:50:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.242.67 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100691 Archived-At: Pascal J. Bourguignon informatimago.com> writes: > > In the current emacs lisp, there's no point in using symbol-name strings > as key in the hash-table: just use symbols with eql as test. > Notice that in emacs lisp: > Of course. The original code transforms the symbol names and uses these transformed strings as keys in the hash, so it is a remnant of simplifying that code into this simple example.