I mentioned that Guile also has one, called a vhash. I guess my point is that special read syntax for them isn't that useful when you can use an alist and convert.
Sounds like a bit of a turing tarpit if you ask me. Sure there are technically ways to work around the lack of read syntax (I mean, Java didn't have literal syntax for any non-array collections for ages) but that doesn't mean it's a good idea.
