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> Probably the worst possible structure for representing a map. Not really. But native hashtables had been added to Lisp in the 70s...
by lispm 9y ago
> Probably the worst possible structure for representing a map.
Not really.
But native hashtables had been added to Lisp in the 70s...
- kazinator 9y agoUnder the right circumstances, a lookup table could be worse. In a simple interpreter, I would hate to pass down a vector of pairs for the environment representation; it would have to be wholly duplicated to extend the environment.