On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> While implementing freeze/thaw I come - again - to this issue. Currently
> a HASH can store arbitrary and in one hash mixed items. This is done by
> storing an union with a type field.
> (List based) arrays on the other hand only have one fixed type per
> aggregate (e.g. ints for IntList or PMCs for Array) - defined at list
> creation time.
> So the question is:
> Do we need/want to keep this mixed entry store for hash or switch over
> to the same scheme used in arrays?
The mixed-type hash can go, or get renamed.
Dan
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