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SBCL has excellent Unicode support, for one, and hash tables are first class objects in all CL implementations. Won't disagree about date and times.
by gmfawcett 3y ago
SBCL has excellent Unicode support, for one, and hash tables are first class objects in all CL implementations. Won't disagree about date and times.
- tmtvl 3y agoBy 'first-class hashmaps' I believe SPH means a type of quasiquoted syntax for hash table initialisation. Something like... (let ((my-map `#M((foo ,foo) (bar ,bar) (baz ,baz)))) (gethash 'foo my-map)) EDIT: almost forgot, thank you for pointing out SBCL's support for Unicode, reading its documentation I found a couple of functions I was in need of.
- gmfawcett 3y agoThanks. I may have taken "first-class" too literally. :) Constructor syntax is nice-to-have, but I don't think the lack of it is evidence of alien technology. Java has the same problem, for example, and Java is about as non-alien as you can get. Overall, hash maps are quite well done in CL, and good surface syntax is easily found in popular libraries, if that's a pain-point (serapeum, etc.). I'm happy to help you find sb-unicode. :) I rarely use CL these days, but when I do, I'm so grateful to the SBCL team for their amazing and ongoing work.