On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Michael Pershyn <[email protected]> wrote: > it is possible to use at least int and float there as a map key: > * ruby > * php > * pythons > * js > * perl
The history is that I probably checked just perl and python and felt that string, int and float was a rather arbitrary set of types that may or may not be consistently supported in more languages and that strings would handle the vast majority of cases where folks wanted to use maps. No one disputed this at the time and the change was made. If you have a proposal that is back-compatible with existing implementations (i.e., creates data that they can all process) and are willing to implement this proposal in one or more languages then it might have a good chance of being accepted by the community. Thanks, Doug
