There are a lot of operators and functions to work with hstore. Does it worth it to implement similar things only to make it possible using operator [] ?
2010/12/13 Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> > >> > >> name and interface - hstore is designed as external module - a > >> internal class can be designed different. > > Could you actually name such a difference rather than pointing to some > airily > > hint of one? That would make it way much easier to see where you want to > go. > > My idea is: > > somevar['key'] = value > value = somevar['key']; > What type of <value> is? Can it be assoc. array ? Is it possible to indexing assoc. array by position ? Any many many other questions can be there. So, I don't think that assoc. arrays has common interface. Its still specialized type. But, Pavel, I feel you idea. You want to make the syntax clear in particular... > > or with constructor > > somevar = ARRAY[key1 => value1, key2 => value2, .. ] > > or some similar. > > Regards > > Pavel Stehule > -- // Dmitriy.
