Re: One more question about elisp

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:05:46 +0100, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:
>> • Elisp Lesson: Hash Table
>>   http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_hash_table.html
>
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> It sounds strange to me (knowing C, python) to use hash tables to
> structure data.

Python uses `dictionaries' (i.e. hashes) extensively, so it is not a
very alien idea to store the named `attributes' of an object in a
convenient to use data structure like a hash map :-)