Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit:
> In which case, what counts as a fundamental minimal core becomes the
> smallest set of common data structures: list, vector, hashmap.
I would dearly like to standardize maps (not necessarily hash maps;
tree maps are a Good Thing too) in Thing One, but I see no hope of it;
there is SRFI 69, which is not that widely supported (11 implementations),
and there is R6RS, which is not that widely supported either, and they
can't even agree on whether it's "hash-table" or "hashtable", never mind
matters more substantive.
ObDigression: Some people, including me, like to caricature the latter
spelling by pronouncing it "HASHT-able", but it's probably the wave
of the future; we went from "base ball" to "base-ball" to "baseball",
and now the first two spellings are completely obsolete. The OED is
unhelpful on the dates of this development, but I can't resist quoting
the lovely definition:
The national field-game of the United States, a more elaborate
variety of the English 'rounders' played by two sides of nine
each; so called from the 'bases' or bounds (usually four in
number) which mark the circuit to be taken by each player of
the in-side [a cricket metaphor] after striking the ball.
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