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Issue: EQUAL-STRUCTURE (Version 5)
- To: masinter.pa@Xerox.COM
- Subject: Issue: EQUAL-STRUCTURE (Version 5)
- From: Jon L White <jonl@lucid.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 89 22:01:37 PST
- Cc: IIM%ECLA@ECLC.USC.EDU, cl-cleanup@sail.stanford.edu
- In-reply-to: masinter.pa@Xerox.COM's message of 9 Jan 89 11:19 PST <890109-112039-4344@Xerox>
Some months back, John Rose made a suggestion that two hashtables should
only be considered "equivalent" (for constant coalescing purposes) if
there are equal on a component-by-component basis; _and_ where component
indexing is by the set of hash-table keys. Several people (including
myself) supported this view, even though it makes descent into hash
tables a bit more complex than descent into simpler structures.
-- JonL --