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

[Przemysław Wojnowski]

W dniu 11.11.2015 o 21:26, Stefan Monnier pisze:
> >      New file with obarray functions.
> >      * lisp/obarray.el: basic obarray functions extracted from abbrev.el
> >      * test/automated/obarray-tests.el: new file
>
> 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, ...).
>
>
>          Stefan

Thanks for feedback.

I just extracted obarray functionality from abbrev.el. This separates 
abbrev responsibility from underlying collection type to make both 
easier to test, understand and change if needed. Replace of 
implementation was not purpose of this commit.