Re: [alexandria-devel] HASH-TABLE-NEXT worthwhile to have?

At Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:02:30 +0300, Nikodemus Siivola wrote:

Samium Gromoff wrote:

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Would it be worthwhile to have something like this:

(defun hash-table-next (hash-table) "Returns the first EXIST-P, KEY, VALUE triple in the HASH-TABLE it can get its hands on; otherwise, NIL." (with-hash-table-iterator (fn hash-table) (fn)))

What's the use-case?

Picking apart the hash table without:

1. having to know anything about the elements 2. having to do it in a iterative fashion

i.e. "give me an element from that bag".

Cheers,

-- Nikodemus