For what it's worth, Racket has a pretty terse syntax for literal hash tables: > (let ((x (make-hash))) (hash-set! x 1 3) (hash-set! x 'a 5) x) '#hash((1 .

For what it's worth, Racket has a pretty terse syntax for literal hash tables: > (let ((x (make-hash))) (hash-set! x 1 3) (hash-set! x 'a 5) x) '#hash((1 . 3) (a . 5)) They can be read in: > (list (read) 30) #hash((2 . 4) (a . b)) '(#hash((a . b) (2 . 4)) 30)