[plt-scheme] Project Euler was Hash Table implementation

From: Noel Welsh (noelwelsh at gmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 3 17:40:17 EDT 2007

On 8/3/07, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Scheme satisfies the first criterion, but not the second and third.
> Of course, you can extend Scheme however you would like, but there is
> no "off-the-shelf" solution for comprehension manipulation of streams.
>  The syntax for vectors and hash tables are also more verbose than
> their counterparts in other languages.

The stream SRFI is pretty good.  Also note you can do fun little hacks
with literal syntax and quasiquote:

>  `#(,(+ 1 2) 4)
#2(3 4)
> (define h #hash((a . (+ 1 2))))
> (hash-table-get h 'a)
(+ 1 2)

[So note you can quasiquote and unquote a literal vector but not a literal hash]

N.


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