Re: [Webware-discuss] New "properties" in 2.2

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

Chuck Esterbrook <Chu...@ya...> wrote:
> >(Still hoping Python gets sets someday, pardon the pun.  You can mimic
> >them with dictionaries, but that's like driving a car across the street
> >to get the mail.)
> 
> I agree. It would also fit better with what MiddleKit is currently calling 
> a "list" but for which it doesn't really guarantee an order.
> 
> I think list, set and map are the 3 Big Containers that every language 
> should have.

I think dictionaries make for pretty decent sets.  Just like lists
make for decent stacks and queues (well, once we got the thread-safe
.pop()).

  Ian