On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Daniel Weinreb wrote:
> Here are pros and cons of changing it that I can see.
> Pro: I's not a hash table in the small-cardinality case; it's a linear
> lookup. So the name is not actually accurate.
Yes it is! It's a hash table with one bucket.
But I prefer th
Daniel Weinreb writes:
> Friends,
>
> I wrote a little package for "fash hash tables", which provide an
> abstraction that is analogous to that of Common Lisp hash tables, but
> is faster for tables with few elements, and only slightly inferior for
> tables with many elements.
>
> I did this beca
FWIW, I'd call 'em maps.
I think that would be more accurate and fit better with the rest of the
programming culture in the large (whatever _that_ might be!).
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Friends,
I wrote a little package for "fash hash tables", which provide an
abstraction that is analogous to that of Common Lisp hash tables, but
is faster for tables with few elements, and only slightly inferior for
tables with many elements.
I did this because performance analysis showed that ou
On 6/12/2011 10:00 AM, Daniel Weinreb wrote:
I, myself, really dislike &aux. It has been so long
since I have seen it that I have forgotten that
it even exists. We never use it; and I should
add that to our style guide.
I forgot to mention another reason I like &aux -- nostalgia. It is like
On 6/12/2011 10:00 AM, Daniel Weinreb wrote:
I, myself, really dislike &aux. It has been so long
since I have seen it that I have forgotten that
it even exists. We never use it; and I should
add that to our style guide.
I hate (a) typing a let and (b) giving up a level of indentation if I
just
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:00:45 -0400, Daniel Weinreb wrote:
> I, myself, really dislike &aux. It has been so long since I have seen
> it that I have forgotten that it even exists. We never use it; and I
> should add that to our style guide.
I was wondering about the use of &aux a while ago, so I
[ Sorry for double-post Ala'a, I forgot to reply-all :( ]
WITH-NESTING reduces the nesting cost of an arbitrary number of
consecutive binding forms to one level, with a highly regular and
simple syntax almost inherently readable to anyone without prior
exposure (I think?). It may not be the most c
