Subject: [DGD] [Melville] non-static mappings
From: dgd at list.imaginary.com (Erwin Harte)
Date: Wed Feb 6 09:06:01 2002

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:40:30AM -0600, Erwin Harte wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:15:05PM +0000, Shevek wrote:
> > 
> > >I do not get your point. In DGD, setting map[key] = nil will remove
> > >the key-value pair from the mapping. This is just as safe as map -=
> > >({ key }).
> > >
> > >// Mikael / Elemel
> > 
> > Are you sure about that?
> 
> I am, my code would fall apart if DGD didn't behave like that.
> 
[...blah...]

Ok, that was totally unrelated to what you asked, but let me assure
you that 'map[key] = nil' has the same effect of 'map -= ({ key })'.

Please, don't let me post before having had my coffee, next time?

Erwin. ;-)
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Erwin Harte