Re: hash-table-{to, from}-alist

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> OK.  Can I use two names: "hashtable-read" and "hashtable-print" for the
>>> feature?  I can't think of a single name that doesn't sound clumsy
>>> (suggestions welcome, of course).

>> Just hashtable-read, I think.  After all, hashtables already have a
>> print representation (all Lisp objects do)---the present difficulty is
>> that this print representation isn't readable.

> Or hashtable-print-readable.

Of, course there's always another (more reliable) way:

   (hash-table-p (read-from-string (prin1-to-string (make-hash-table))))


-- Stefan