How about a new set of commands and identifiers for a new better implementation of hash tables, keeping the existing ones for backward compatibility
That's what I meant, it was said in the sense that a new set allows to preserve the old one.
Yes - but even better would be to NOT create a competing set of commands / identifiers which then results in having to maintain both sets for ever more, but instead to leave the existing set as they are and extend them by use of flags (which is what has generally been done in the past).
But of course, all this is dependent on Khaled being willing to develop any changes, and I think he has made his position quite clear on what he is and isn't prepared to do at the present time.
