Re: [Emacs-diffs] master a3b2101 1/2: New file with obarray functions.

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Funnily enough, I think we should discourage the use of obarrays.
  > There are times/places where they are really indispensable (when we
  > really need to handle *symbols*), but in the majority of cases where
  > I could see this obarray.el being used, a hash-table would work better
  > (e.g. hash-table-p is more reliable, print+read actually works, access
  > is usually faster, ...).

Hash tables are a lot newer -- for a long time, obarrays were the only
Emacs data type that did hashing.  Perhaps that is why obarrays are used
in some places where hash tables would be better.

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