On Jan 1, 6:16Â pm, 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? > > Oh, and Paul, you've been around long enough that you should know better > than to be cross-posting like you did. > > -- > Steven
Steven, He was not cross posting. His reference to python dicts is a result of the nested scope of my references to Xah. Making them perfectly and completely valid in this thread, and the scope therein! I do not believe a linear conversation would do anybody any good here and even valid. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list