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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:06:57 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   • dave

   Functional hash tables always seemed like mysterious magic to me. But now I know how they work, and you can too! https://spritely.institute/news/functional-hash-tables-explained.html

   @dthompson implemented functional hashtables in Guile Goblins and explains how they work using HAMTs!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:16:35 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     The code is actually a joy to read, honest: https://codeberg.org/spritely/goblins/src/branch/main/goblins/utils/hashmap.scm

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     Robin Tarsiger (dasyatidprime@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 01:49:58 JST Robin Tarsiger

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     @cwebber I like HAMTs but I cannot get over the mental collision with “Hamtaro”

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     Carsten Thielecke (kleinemy@toot.community)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 21:25:06 JST Carsten Thielecke

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     • dave

     @cwebber @dthompson
     Definitely a very precise and easily digestible explanation of HAMTs. Thanks for the hint.