Re: [PATCH] Add procedures to convert alists into hash tables

[David Thompson]

On 11/06/2013 07:54 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
>> "Thompson, David" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 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’.
> 

Finally got around to updating this patch. I opted for adding a
standalone module named (ice-9 hash-table) rather than including it from
boot-9.

How did I do?

- Dave

0001-Add-procedures-to-convert-alists-into-hash-tables.patch
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