Re: [TCLCORE] Ordered Dicts?

[miguel <ms...@us...>]

Alexandre Ferrieux wrote:
> On 11/21/07, Donal K. Fellows <don...@ma...> wrote:
>>   The custom hash table type I'm using is not exposed outside the
>>   guts of the dict implementation; it doesn't even leave the file.
>>
> 
> OK, thanks for the clarification.
> 
> (I'm just a bit uneasy thinking that somebody may cut&paste this out
> of context, e.g. to add the ordering feature to vanilla arrays, which
> is not so hard...
> Maybe just adding a comment could protect against this.)

Vanilla arrays now also have Tcl_Obj keys, so no danger there. And they 
also use a specialized hashtable that is not exposed. Except to the itcl 
and xotcl guys, or others mucking with internals. They are careful and 
know where to ask.