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Don't be irritated by silly mistakes in draft #1 taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (08 Sep 2015 21:43 UTC)
Re: Don't be irritated by silly mistakes in draft #1 John Cowan (09 Sep 2015 01:10 UTC)
Re: Don't be irritated by silly mistakes in draft #1 taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (09 Sep 2015 14:19 UTC)
Re: Don't be irritated by silly mistakes in draft #1 John Cowan (09 Sep 2015 15:26 UTC)
Re: Don't be irritated by silly mistakes in draft #1 taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (09 Sep 2015 16:28 UTC)
Re: Don't be irritated by silly mistakes in draft #1 John Cowan (14 Sep 2015 02:02 UTC)

Re: Don't be irritated by silly mistakes in draft #1 John Cowan 14 Sep 2015 02:02 UTC

Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer scripsit:

> Fun-fact: GNU Emacs supports "key-and-value" as one of the hashtable
> weakness options, which implements the semantics of double-ephemeron aka
> ephemeral-key-and-value hashtables.  It supports "key-or-value" weakness
> to mean the entry should be removed if either the key or value are
> deallocated, which is what you get from plain weak-key-and-value
> hashtables.

I've added the keys `ephemeral-key` and `ephemeral-value` to SRFI 125.
Of course, both can be used, and in fact you can specify a weak key
and an ephemeral value, though there is little point in doing so.

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