On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Domenic Denicola
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On May 21, 2013, at 1:28, "Tab Atkins Jr." <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Domenic Denicola
>> Is<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Oh, I must have misread your original message. I thought it did not allow 
>>> storing non-string keys. If it can allow storing any kind of key, like a 
>>> Map, and it's just the initial data you're referring to, then maybe it is a 
>>> Map. As long as the contract that `map.set(x, y); map.get(x) === y` works 
>>> for any `x` and `y`, then you're probably fine.
>>
>> It's a string-keyed map, but that just means that you toString
>> everything, as Anne says.  Your contract is still maintained, assuming
>> a non-degenerate toString.
>
> Right, I guess it's this contract that gets broken: `x !== y` implies 
> `map.set(x, 1); map.set(y, 2); map.get(x) === 1; map.get(y) === 2`.

Yes, because it's a string map rather than an object map.  But that
difference doesn't justify breaking all the qualities I listed in my
previous message.

~TJ
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