On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:30:01AM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote: > In practice keys are unique because although the API has never enforced > uniqueness pretty much every client does because all the clients use a > hash table of some sort to store tags.
Hash table, or associative array/hash/dictionary? Hash tables have mechanisms to deal with collisions. I suppose I should just look at the code… Simon -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.—John Gall
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