Re: [Chicken-users] functions for hash tables

[Ed Watkeys]

On Jan 26, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Ed Watkeys wrote:

> I think conversations like these lead to the realization that at some 
> level, the Common Lisp folks are right, and some sort of standard 
> library definition is called for.

Or, as an alternative, we need a process for reviewing and blessing 
library definitions as consistent internally, with core scheme 
concepts, and other blessed libraries. People naturally expect to go 
through hell to get unblessed libraries to work on different 
implementations, so we should not get too concerned when changes in a 
proposed library break existing code.

I used to love Python, but as the standard library grows, you see more 
and more FunctionsLikeThis und_dieses etceci. Hardly a paragraph of 
code goes by without a trip to the Python.org library reference. It's 
sickening.

Ed