On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > While implementing freeze/thaw I come - again - to this issue. Currently > a HASH can store arbitrary and in one hash mixed items. This is done by > storing an union with a type field. > (List based) arrays on the other hand only have one fixed type per > aggregate (e.g. ints for IntList or PMCs for Array) - defined at list > creation time. > So the question is: > Do we need/want to keep this mixed entry store for hash or switch over > to the same scheme used in arrays?
The mixed-type hash can go, or get renamed. Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk