From: <ir...@ms...> - 2002-09-14 14:23:53
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On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 10:50:44AM +0300, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote: > Tom Sawyer [mailto:tra...@tr...] wrote: > > i don't mine the -, in fact i think it is good for "order" > > consistency. the problem you will have, as i've said before, > > is that it's not really an ordered map, but an array of > > single maps. hence you will have problems interoping if one > > tool treats it as an ordered map b/c it can (like php) and > > another that dosen't (cause its not so smart like that ;) > > I fail to see how a "sequence of key/value pairs" is different from "an > ordered map". It thought it was the _definition_ of an ordered map. The difference is in the duplicates. The success of the "array of single maps" concept rests on how well we can treat them as single units above the syntax level. -- -Mike (Iron) Orr, ir...@ms... (if mail problems: ms...@oz...) http://iron.cx/ English * Esperanto * Russkiy * Deutsch * Espan~ol |