Re: Representing XML in tables

["Andy Stark" <astark@...>]

drj:-

>Unluckily you chose the one value that cannot be used to index a table.
>nil cannot be used to index a table.

Note to self... check reference manual before posting...

>But you could create a nonce and use that.  Something like:
>tag = function()end
>or (more profligately?)
>tag = {}

These will certainly work but we would ideally want a value that can be
quoted as a literal; the literal should be a nice, short token if
possible. The "{}" is certainly short, but do all empty tables have the
same hash value? (Possibly, but it is not obvious).

How about the boolean "true" value?

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