Re: Proposal of a better hash table implementation based on SRFI 125

[Amirouche Boubekki <amirouche@hypermove.net>]

Le 2018-12-28 17:11, Jéssica Milaré a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> As I said in a previous e-mail, currently SRFI-69 is broken for weak
> hash tables - and I've sent a patch to fix it. However, I think there
> are many other problems with current implementation of hash tables.
> There are guile standard hash tables, SRFI-69 hash tables (which is
> implemented on top of standard hash tables) and also R6RS hash tables
> (which is implemented on top or SRFI-69 and completely lacks support
> for weak keys and/or values).
> 
> I think that should be fixed and guile should have only two kinds of
> hash tables: the standard guile hash table and another extended hash
> table type that will be used directly by R6RS, SRFI-125 and SRFI-69.
> In my opinion, it should be based on SRFI-125, which is part of R7RS
> Red Edition, but also supports some other procedures to make it
> compatible with R6RS and SRFI-69, supporting weakness and immutable
> hash tables.
> 
> I'm already implementing the SRFI-125 based hash tables library for
> myself, so, if that is accepted, I can also make a patch for guile.
> 

Yes please make a patch and attach it to the bug report.

Don't forget to send an announcement when you SRFI-125 implementation
is ready for testing. Is it already available anywhere?

TIA