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Re: Scheme style auto-resizing hashtable (fwd)

On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:23:22PM -0500, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:15:27PM +1100, Tel wrote:
> > Just a very fanciful suggestion: Is it possible to combine
> > ``dictionary-insert-alist!'' and ``dictionary-insert-dictionary!''
> > into ``dictionary-insert!'' such that (dictionary-inset! D fred)
> > will look at the type of fred and modify it's behaviour accordingly?

> > Am I getting carried away here? Is someone likely to want a dictionary
> > of dictionaries?

I've done things like Hashes of arrays of hashes in Perl before.  You
could probably do it in python as well - it might be a tad ugly in
Tcl.

It does have its uses...
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