At 9:36 AM +0100 7/22/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Um... not necessarily. Bordering on the 'not at all'. Perl 6 will >apparently allow one to have things other than strings as keys to >hashes. If I have:
Yes. Hashes will take either strings or object IDs, depending on the hash. (The hash can choose) Objects are required to provide a fixed id. (No sneaky changing IDs on the fly. Not allowed) Multiple objects may or may not be allowed to have the same ID--opinions differ there. -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk