Re: hash-table-{to, from}-alist

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:30:48 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

>>>> OK.  Can I use two names: "hashtable-read" and "hashtable-print" for the
>>>> feature?  I can't think of a single name that doesn't sound clumsy
>>>> (suggestions welcome, of course).

>>> Just hashtable-read, I think.  After all, hashtables already have a
>>> print representation (all Lisp objects do)---the present difficulty is
>>> that this print representation isn't readable.

>> Or hashtable-print-readable.

SM> Of, course there's always another (more reliable) way:

SM>    (hash-table-p (read-from-string (prin1-to-string (make-hash-table))))

That was my first thought, but it seemed like a really hacky approach
when featurep exists.

Ted