> Title should be "Perceived problems with hash-tables in Common Lisp"...
Good idea. Title changed :)
I decided not to bring up the printed representation, since other languages don't do much better. Perl will print either the keys and values with no spaces between them (by default), or something like "5/8" in scalar context, or "HASH(0x123456)" if it's a reference. No better than CL, and nobody complains about this :)
Good idea. Title changed :)
I decided not to bring up the printed representation, since other languages don't do much better. Perl will print either the keys and values with no spaces between them (by default), or something like "5/8" in scalar context, or "HASH(0x123456)" if it's a reference. No better than CL, and nobody complains about this :)