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make-hash-table is an abomination. Thanks for this.

• lispm 14y ago
  (make-hash-table) is too difficult?
  • jfb 14y ago
    Enumerate the keys, please. Oh, no primitives? Well, you can just use maphash. But wait: maphash doesn't return values. So you need your k/v function to modify some state somewhere. WAT Fuck it, I'll just use an alist.
    • lispm 14y ago
      Enumerating keys makes (MAKE-HASH-TABLE) hard to use? What? If you want to enumerate keys, write a function. In Common Lisp I write: (defun hash-table-keys (ht) (loop for k being each hash-key of ht collect k)) Done. That's Lisp. Need a function? Write it.
      • jfb 14y ago
        Cool, thanks. The problem here is in the elisp manual, then.