My take on the same problem was to define infix notation for a few
oft-used operations, including some hash table operations.  To that end
I defined

   h |> k

to lookup key k in hashtable h, and 

   h |< (k,d)

to add the key,data pair (k,d) to h.  It has the downside of obscurity
to the uninitiated, but I find it a lot easier to read code that uses
these operators than the rather overlong Hashtbl.* equivalents.

y

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 13:32, Manos Renieris wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 05:46:39PM +0200, KONTRA Gergely wrote:
> > 
> > Hashtbl.add h "foo" "bar" <--> h#add "foo" "bar"
> > 
> > Because it is shorter to type -> less errors, quicker programming
> > OO can be cool. (see ruby)
> > I'm not OO fan, but lazy :)
> 
> If that's the reason, once you do
>     module H = Hashtbl
> then
>     H.add h "foo" "bar"
> is only two characters longer, and one shift shorter :-)
> And the compiler ensures the exact type of h, and you know statically
> what function you call -> less to keep in your head -> less errors,
> quicker programming.
> 
> -- Manos
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