[plt-scheme] hash-has-key?

2009-03-28 Carl Eastlund <carl.eastlund at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Thomas Chust <chust at web.de> wrote:
>> [...]
>>  (define (my-hash-ref ht key)
>>    (let/ec return
>>      (cons 'found (hash-ref ht key (curry return 'not-found)))))
>>
>> With this definition of a hash lookup function 'not-found is returned
>> if and only if the hash table contains no mapping for the given key.
>>
>> Whether this design is really a good solution is another question,
>> especially in a weakly typed language.
>
> Types have nothing to do with the inconvenience here; typed or
> untyped, the result of a successful lookup has to be unwrapped here.
> [...]

Hello Carl,

in a statically typed language the compiler can automate or aid the
unwrapping process more easily. But you are right that this is more of
an indirect effect and it's also a matter of taste how much magic a
compiler should apply :-)

cu,
Thomas


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