Re: Print representation of records and hash tables

[Philipp Stephani]

Tianxiang Xiong <address@hidden> schrieb am Mo., 11. Dez. 2017 um 11:32 Uhr:

Emacs 26 introduces records, which have a print representation starting with `#s`, followed by a list of contents.

This seems similar to the print representation of hash tables:

(make-hash-table) 

;; => #s(hash-table size 65 test eql rehash-size 1.5 rehash-threshold 0.8 data ( ...))

Is this merely "coincidence", or is there some deeper meaning? If not, isn't it confusing to have two different objects w/ such similar print representations?

Yes, it's confusing, and I'm very much against it. Interpretation of ELisp code (even compiled code) now changes in a very subtle manner depending on whether a record named `hash-table` happens to be defined or not.