Re: [Scheme-reports] [scheme-reports-wg2] Re: Seeking review of sets and hash tables proposals

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

Kevin Wortman scripsit:

> +1. By the principle of minimal surprise, I would prefer to either make do
> with using two conventional procedures, or create a new type that behaves
> like a conventional record.

I've decided to go with the second choice.

> Actually a comparator can be defined by just a well-behaved < predicate and
> a hash procedure, 

True, but that can be very costly, especially for non-atomic data.

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