Re: [Chicken-users] hash table questions

[Kon Lovett]

On Nov 22, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Kon Lovett <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On Nov 22, 2012, at 4:56 PM, Claude Marinier <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Greetings fellow Schemers,
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>> or would it just create a new record without complaining? This would look 
>> like duplicate keys but they would be different.
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> The builtin hash will treat a u8vector & a vector of fixnum differently.
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> I suggest using a vector of fixnum as your IP-addr representation. I am 
> doubtful that records as keys are correctly processed.

Sorry, no doubts. Never mind.

> ex: (vector 192 168 1 16)

I retract this suggestion.

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>> I assume that hash-table-for-each will present each key / record pair once 
>> and do so in some arbitrary order.
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> Yes.
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>> 
>> Can I assume that dump-IPv4-record, when it calls IPv4-address->string, will 
>> choke on a key which is not a u8vector?
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> Yes.
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>> I am looking for the mistake I made which is producing the illusion of a 
>> duplicate key in the hash table. I believe that confirming my assumptions is 
>> a good starting point.
>> 
>> I hope this sort of question is not abusing the list members.
>> 
>> Thank you for your patience.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Claude Marinier
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