From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add procedures to convert alists into hash tables Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:54:28 +0100 Message-ID: <87mwlhlmgr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5263E55A.6040307@worcester.edu> <87txg0p805.fsf@gnu.org> <87iow6pqox.fsf@netris.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 1383742488 8317 80.91.229.3 (6 Nov 2013 12:54:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 12:54:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 06 13:54:51 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 1Ve2dA-0001OE-HU for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:54:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33271 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ve2dA-0000NT-7T for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 07:54:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59474) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ve2d3-0000N5-O9 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 07:54:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ve2cw-00005q-9l for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 07:54:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.104]:56715) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ve2cw-00005Y-3M for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 07:54:30 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.93,647,1378850400"; d="scan'208";a="34015048" Original-Received: from pluto.sophia.inria.fr (HELO pluto) ([138.96.204.192]) by mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES128-SHA; 06 Nov 2013 13:54:28 +0100 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 16 Brumaire an 222 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <87iow6pqox.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:57:18 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 192.134.164.104 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:16710 Archived-At: Mark H Weaver skribis: > "Thompson, David" writes: > >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wro= te: >>> 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. Agreed. David: would you be willing to do that? Apologies for my late comment, and for the extra work involved. Your contributions are appreciated! Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.