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On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez
<javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
>> "a pure associative map where nil can be a key"
>
> s/can/can't/  ?

_We_ know that very well, but the newcomer might not consider the
possibility of nil being special here. A more common 'implicit data
type' would be 'an associate map where _values_ may be nil" since that
appears quite commonly with objects; again, the Lua table can't help
directly.

steve d.