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From: Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add-native-hashtable-helper-functions
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:55:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPjoZodem5CvXe1-0YF-+UdBqU+0Q4p6i6Sr8jd8cXcyanMfeg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871ub16k73.fsf@tines.lan>

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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
> > Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com> skribis:
> >
> >> +(define (hash-keys table)
> >> +  "Return all the keys from hash table."
> >> +  (hash-map->list (lambda (x y) x) table))
> >
> > That doesn’t seem sufficiently common to warrant a new procedure.  WDYT?
>
> FWIW, I think it would be reasonable to add 'hash-keys'.  Many users
> are accustomed to writing in a style that's made more convenient by
> 'hash-keys', and in cases where efficiency is not crucial, I think
> it's a fine style.  Also, sometimes the values aren't needed.
>
> IMO, we can afford to add a few conveniences such as this.
>
>
Thanks for saying that.
And please consider 'hash-items' implemented with hash-count, it's common
as well.

And I'm not sure about hash-size myself, I won't insist on it.

Thanks!


>       Mark
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-27 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-26 10:40 [PATCH] Add-native-hashtable-helper-functions Nala Ginrut
2013-03-26 12:54 ` Noah Lavine
2013-03-26 21:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-27  0:47   ` Nala Ginrut
2013-03-27  5:10     ` Daniel Hartwig
2013-03-27  6:32       ` Nala Ginrut
2013-03-27  8:55         ` Daniel Hartwig
2013-03-27 10:25           ` Nala Ginrut
2013-03-27 10:03         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-27 13:33   ` Mark H Weaver
2013-03-27 13:55     ` Nala Ginrut [this message]
2013-03-27 20:21     ` Ludovic Courtès

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