Alain's solution to the get-instance-by-value is the correct one.
It's an API issue, not a fundamental one.
That is to say if you know you want only one of a potentially
duplicate set from a slot index, get-instance-by-value should just use
get-value on that index. I implemented that function a long time ago
and didn't really think through it, it was just syntactic sugar for
(car (get-instances-by-value)) which I ended up using alot.
The map-index and cursor issues I will talk about in a follow-up e-mail.
Ian
On Nov 29, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Alain Picard wrote:
"Alex Mizrahi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AP> Am I missing something really basic here?
actually it's quite strange situation that you have *many* employees
with same name but you want just one (random one). i cannot imagine
why one needs this in real world..
I didn't say they have the same name, at least I don't think I did.
I have millions of employees, each with a unique name, and
want to pull one back with an indexed, efficient search.
or you're saying that all have different names, but it still does
consing?
Yes - that is what I am saying.
cheers,
--ap
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