Re: [PATCH] Add procedures to convert alists into hash tables

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> "Thompson, David" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I think it would make sense to implement them in Scheme, say in
>>> ice-9/hash-table.scm, which could be either a separate module or a file
>>> included from boot-9.scm.
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>
>> Does anyone else feel that this is a better approach?
>
> FWIW, I think Ludovic is right.  There's no compelling reason to write
> these procedures in C, and it would be good to reduce the amount of C
> code for several reasons.  However, unlike ttn, I think it would be good
> to have these procedures in core Guile.

Agreed.

David: would you be willing to do that?  Apologies for my late comment,
and for the extra work involved.  Your contributions are appreciated!

Thanks,
Ludo’.