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| From: | ian@five-d.com (Ian Kemmish) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.misc,comp.compilers |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1996 13:19:49 -0500 |
| Organization: | At home with Ian |
| References: | <5437ev$30u@shell1.aimnet.com> <545mqn$qul@picasso.op.net> 96-10-099 96-10-109 |
| Keywords: | design, history |
andy@research.canon.com.au says...
>The ICI language has a similar construct. What it calls a "struct" is
>really a dictionary object, a collection of key/value pairs that may
>be arbitrary objects. As in Lisp strings are "atomic" and have a
>unique address in the interpreter's address space (as can all
>objects). Unlike the SNOBOL array implementation ICI uses a hash table ...
And in the everyday world.... PostScript. Keys in PostScript
dictionaries can be any valid PostScript object *except* null. Even
floating point numbers, which can be fun.
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