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Mike Pall wrote:
> There's no way to do that without traversing the whole table. All
> shortcuts that try to infer something from e.g. #t or next() will
> fail under some circumstances.

I think you only need to traverse a hash part and stop when you find
a non-empty bucket. But you're right, that's still a linear search.

Alex