Re: Translators/parsing Python

[David Lutterkort <lutter at cise dot ufl dot edu>]

roland.kaufmann@space.at writes:

> >>>>> "Lalo" == Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com> writes:
> 
>     Lalo> You're looking for ``alists''. info (r5rs)Pairs and lists
> 
> Unless you're trying to implement the slowest Python byte-code
> interpreter in the west, hash tables would be a better choice.  There
> is some documentation in the old guile reference manual.

Some time ago, Jay Glascoe implemented automatically resizing hash tables
for guile. I don't think they made it into CVS, but if you search the
archives of this mailing list you should find a pointer to them.

But don't sweat it. As long as you abstract your data structures nicely,
the implementation you use is immaterial for a first iteration. Don't let a
slow data structure keep you from doing it :)

David