From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add procedures to convert alists into hash tables Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:57:18 -0500 Message-ID: <87iow6pqox.fsf@netris.org> References: <5263E55A.6040307@worcester.edu> <87txg0p805.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383681552 28357 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2013 19:59:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 19:59:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , guile-devel To: "Thompson\, David" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 05 20:59:14 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@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 1VdmmN-0007YG-FN for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 20:59:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdmmN-0005fr-5h for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:59:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42889) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdmmF-0005Wz-1l for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:59:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vdmm9-0006du-Q1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:59:02 -0500 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:35270) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vdmm9-0006dY-DK; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:58:57 -0500 Original-Received: from 209-6-91-212.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.6.91.212] helo=yeeloong) by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Vdmm1-0004ot-QZ; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:58:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: (David Thompson's message of "Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:19:16 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 96.39.62.75 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:16709 Archived-At: "Thompson, David" writes: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrot= e: >> 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