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Re: [Chicken-users] ANN: persistent-hash-map 0.0.1
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Moritz Heidkamp |
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Re: [Chicken-users] ANN: persistent-hash-map 0.0.1 |
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Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:54:22 +0100 |
John Cowan <address@hidden> writes:
> This looks brilliant. I have written some sketchy stuff that searches
> an a-list in the normal way, but if the a-list lookup fails and the tail
> is not the empty list but a SRFI 69 hash table, then search the hash table,
> on the assumption that there's a certain amount of stuff that has to be
> functional and then there are lots of global keys that are maybe mutable,
> maybe immutable, but anyway should be searched fast. This looks like a
> *much* better approach.
Right, hacky work-arounds like the one you describe are what encouraged
me to port this thing :-)
Moritz