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On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:23:22PM -0500, Peter C. Norton wrote: > On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:15:27PM +1100, Tel wrote: > > Just a very fanciful suggestion: Is it possible to combine > > ``dictionary-insert-alist!'' and ``dictionary-insert-dictionary!'' > > into ``dictionary-insert!'' such that (dictionary-inset! D fred) > > will look at the type of fred and modify it's behaviour accordingly? > > Am I getting carried away here? Is someone likely to want a dictionary > > of dictionaries? I've done things like Hashes of arrays of hashes in Perl before. You could probably do it in python as well - it might be a tad ugly in Tcl. It does have its uses... -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org