Q: Hash store

2003-11-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
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

Re: Q: Hash store

2003-11-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
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