[Chicken-users] functions for hash tables

[Sven . Hartrumpf]

Hi all.


Here is a useful comparison of hash tables in different Scheme
implementations (great work, Shiro):

http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/wiliki/schemexref.cgi?Concept%3aHashTable

After editing some API entries, I have the following comments for Chicken:

1.
hash-table-update! is missing (although important).

2.
hash-table-count should be better explained in comparison to hash-table-size.

3.
hash-table-ref is called hash-table-get in all other implementations.
Gauche has an additional optional argument that specifies what is returned if
key is not present - might be a good extension.

4.
hash-table-set! is called hash-table-put! in all other implementations.

5.
hash-table-for-each has the hash table as first argument in all other 
implementations.

6.
hash-table->list should better be named hash-table->alist or hash-table->... ?


Greetings
Sven

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