From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Why can't a hash table be read/written as #S(HASH-TABLE ...)? Date: 1999/04/10 Message-ID: <3132732178997230@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 464756855 References: <3132642870691300@naggum.no> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Erik Naggum | I don't see a problem with #.(make-hash-table ...) except [...] * Kent M Pitman | It's problem is that people quite reasonably want to disable *read-eval* | to avoid trojan horses. yes, *READ-EVAL* is sometimes too powerful, but as a first approximation (of which Barry's tongue-in-cheek form would be a first approximation :), until we get to the point where we know how to represent these things, it would at provide _some_ mechanism to do it, instead of being impossible. #H appears to be free, so if only calls to MAKE-HASH-TABLE were to be desired, it could be used for that purpose, once we know what it takes. #:Erik