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Re: Changing the signature of ‘vhash-assoc’
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Changing the signature of ‘vhash-assoc’ |
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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:17:48 +0200 |
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Hello!
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> I already changed my mind... :-)
At the risk of looking silly, I changed again.
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Indeed, if ‘vhash-assoc’ et al. are changed to return a vhash instead of
>> a pair, then we have all that’s needed to do that:
>
> [...]
>
>> Thus I’m planning to make that change. [The ‘vhash-fold-matches’ above
>> conses at each match whereas the attached one doesn’t, but that’s OK.]
>
> Thinking more about it, I think I’d rather keep ‘vhash-assoc’ & co. as
> they are, and add ‘vhash-assoc*’ & co., which would return a vhash.
Commit 927bf5e8cc0af9515797ebab6d9ba162bef23c2a is roughly the original
patch.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=927bf5e8cc0af9515797ebab6d9ba162bef23c2a
I still think that ‘vhash-assoc*’ could/should be added eventually, but
it’s only useful for programs willing to access only *some* of the
values associated with a given key, which I expect to be uncommon.
Accessing the first value associated with a key (‘vhash-assoc’) or all
the values associated with a key (the new ‘vhash-fold*’) seems more
common.
Thanks,
Ludo’.