[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: plists, alists, and hashtables
|
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
|
Subject: |
Re: plists, alists, and hashtables |
|
Date: |
Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:16:25 -0400 |
|
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> In short a map is the fundamental data structure.
Beware: there are maps and then there are maps.
E.g. Javascript's objects are maps (typically thought of as being
implemented as some kind of hash-tables), yet Javascript also comes with
hash-tables.
More importantly, mathematical maps are persistent, whereas your
apparently favorite implementation (the hash-table) is not persistent,
contrary to (e.g.) alists.
Stefan
- plists, alists, and hashtables (was: How to iterate over properties in a plist?), Ted Zlatanov, 2015/08/04
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables (was: How to iterate over properties in a plist?), Rusi, 2015/08/05
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2015/08/05
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Ted Zlatanov, 2015/08/05
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Rusi, 2015/08/05
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Message not available
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Rusi, 2015/08/07
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2015/08/05
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Ted Zlatanov, 2015/08/05
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Barry Margolin, 2015/08/05
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Robert Thorpe, 2015/08/05
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2015/08/05
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Ted Zlatanov, 2015/08/06
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2015/08/06
- RE: plists, alists, and hashtables, Drew Adams, 2015/08/06
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Ted Zlatanov, 2015/08/06