Re: Tracking number of pairs in a dictionary

[Jorge <xxopxe@...>]

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 12:03 -0500, Javier Guerra wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Jorge <xxopxe@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The pseudo pseudo code goes something like "if there's space in the
> > table add the entry, else search for one entry to be replaced".
> 
> any reason why you can't just use a weak table and let the garbage
> collector deal with it?

This dictionary is the structure that actually holds my data, which
isn't available anywhere else.

I thought of having two tables pointing to the same data, an array and a
weak dictionary, but it looks a bit cumbersome. 

Jorge