On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Simon King<simon.k...@nuigalway.ie> wrote: >
<SNIP> > I guess this would provide some flexibility, but I don't know if it > would be a "clean" thing to do. > Since I am not an experienced programmer: Are there reasons to not use > a dictionary for those kind of things? A good point: searching through a dictionary is essentially constant time. A bad point: can't assume that each key/value pair in a dictionary would always be ordered in exactly the same way. This assumption was uncovered during the development of Sage 4.1.1 when a doctest failed. The cause of the failure: the doctest assumed that printing the key/value pairs of a dictionary would always result in exactly the same arrangement of key/value pairs. Bad assumption there. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
