Re: Associative collection with automatic keys?

2017-04-05 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Trey Ethan Harris wrote: > (I can use classify-list to do this ad-hoc, or even just do a simple map as > I might in Perl 5, but I'm thinking of each key's relationship to and > extraction from its value as being a feature of the collection, not of the > way I const

Re: Associative collection with automatic keys?

2017-04-04 Thread The Holy Ghost
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 01:33:58AM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > On 4 Apr 2017, at 11:31, Trey Ethan Harris wrote: > > > > I'm thinking of a Hash-like collection where I can add objects using a > > index-less append operation, but then have random access to the elements > > based on a k

Re: Associative collection with automatic keys?

2017-04-04 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 4 Apr 2017, at 11:31, Trey Ethan Harris wrote: > > I'm thinking of a Hash-like collection where I can add objects using a > index-less append operation, but then have random access to the elements > based on a key provided by the object. (For instance, imagine a ProcessTable, > where I cr