On Jan 2, 12:16Â am, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:32:53 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > > On many occasions I've wished for a functional dictionary implementation > > in Python, like Haskell's Data.Map. Â One of these years I'll get around > > to writing one. > > You don't think Python's dict implementation is functional? That's pretty > strange, Python dicts are the basis of much of the language. They > certainly work, and work well, what makes you think they aren't > functional? What does Data.Map do that dicts don't? >
He almost certainly (I assume) means functional in the way that Haskell is a functional language. Michael Foord -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list