Yegappan wrote:
> To clear the contents of a list named "abc", we can use "unlet abc[:]".
> It looks like a similar method for clearing the contents of a dictionary
> is not available. We can set the dictionary variable to another empty
> dictionary (but it is not the same). Am I missing something?
The "unlet" command would be a weird way to clear a dict.
The suggestion to use filter() works well enough:
call filter(dict, 0)
Adding a new function isn't really needed, I would think clearing a
dictionary while keeping the identity is rare.
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