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25.3; Functions to get alist from hash table and vice versa

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>,
 Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>, 28753 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: bug#28753: 25.3;
 Functions to get alist from hash table and vice versa
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 21:15:34 +0000

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Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> schrieb am Sa., 30. Dez. 2017 um
22:08 Uhr:

> > I don't think a unified conversion interface is that important.
> > The various structures used for mappings are just too different.
> > For example, alists and plists aren't real types, they are only
> > defined by their usage. Hash tables, on the other hand, are real
> > types, with a per-object comparison function, a non-nil empty
> > value, etc. These two kinds of objects are just too different
> > to treat uniformly. Also, in most cases it is statically known
> > which kinds of objects are involved, so a generic function that
> > dynamically selects on the type of object isn't that useful.
> >
> > How about adding some simple conversion functions to subr.el such as
> >
> > (defun alist-to-hashtable (alist &rest keys) ...)
> > (defun hashtable-to-alist (hashtable) ...)
>
> Which brings us back to the very first msg of this thread -
> the bug report.  Please see the code I proposed there.
>

OK thanks. I think your definitions would be a useful addition to subr.el.


>
> And note the differences from the signature you show for
> `alist-to-hashtable'.  I think those differences are
> important and your signature is not satisfactory.
>

NB, I have the `&rest keys` in my arglist, with similar intentions as your
definition.

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