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- Subject: Re: Project lead nominations for standard libraries?
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 16:33:06 +0200
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.