From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Thompson\, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add procedures to convert alists into hash tables
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:57:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iow6pqox.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfZeGnSZAtLk=0JR-BuObZVZwr_n5wTcHpKjP4Ymm6dgqA@mail.gmail.com> (David Thompson's message of "Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:19:16 -0400")
"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> I think it would make sense to implement them in Scheme, say in
>> ice-9/hash-table.scm, which could be either a separate module or a file
>> included from boot-9.scm.
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> Does anyone else feel that this is a better approach?
FWIW, I think Ludovic is right. There's no compelling reason to write
these procedures in C, and it would be good to reduce the amount of C
code for several reasons. However, unlike ttn, I think it would be good
to have these procedures in core Guile.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-05 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-20 14:14 [PATCH] Add procedures to convert alists into hash tables David Thompson
2013-10-20 14:28 ` David Thompson
2013-10-21 17:00 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-10-22 3:03 ` David Thompson
2013-10-28 12:17 ` Chris K. Jester-Young
2013-10-28 23:51 ` David Thompson
2013-10-26 11:41 ` David Thompson
2013-10-29 12:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-30 20:19 ` Thompson, David
2013-11-03 12:43 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-11-05 19:57 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2013-11-06 12:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-11-06 13:14 ` Thompson, David
2013-11-18 1:50 ` David Thompson
2013-11-18 2:42 ` David Thompson
2013-11-18 3:22 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-11-18 20:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-11-19 2:00 ` David Thompson
2013-11-19 4:06 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-11-19 13:14 ` Thompson, David
2014-03-24 21:06 ` Andy Wingo
2014-03-24 22:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-24 22:26 ` Andy Wingo
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