On 24 Sep 2009, at 3:24 pm, John Cowan wrote:

> 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)

Yeah s/hashmap/map/.

> 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.

All the more reason to call it a dict or something like that ;-)

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