Re: [Chicken-users] Hashtable is behaving unexpectedly

[Felix Winkelmann]

Michael Erdmann wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> i am realy sorry for this. I found i out my self in a quiet
> moment reading again the docu.
>
> Any way i find the default value very strange since the
> typical use case will not be to put in the same object
> into the hashtable returning prevuously stored data for
> the same object.

If you use symbols (a common situation), eqv? (or eq?)
is sufficient and fast, since symbols are always unique.
It also works for numbers, but I agree that there is a slight
catch when strings are involved.


cheers,
felix