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class=857305419-28092011>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=857305419-28092011>By inspection with
the macro stepper I found that case forms are expanded to nested if-forms. For
case forms with many clauses, this may be inefficient. I have tried to prepare a
hash-case form using a hash table in order to select the desired clause more
efficiently. So far my attempts failed. I am still trying. However, has anybody
else on this list thought of using a hash for case forms with many clauses? Does
it exist? If not, would anyone be interested in a hash-case form that has the
same shape as a case-form, but uses a hash-table to select the appropriate
clause? The hash table should be a map onto thunks and macro hash-case simply
would have to retrieve the thunk and call it.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=857305419-28092011>Thanks,
Jos</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>