]> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:54:03PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > Hashtbls are much easier to use than Maps precisely for the reasons he > has outlined. They'd be even better if the language offered syntactic > support for them (but this just reflects my Perl background), eg: > > let hash = {| "foo", "bar"; "a", "b" |} in > hash.{"foo"} <- "baz"; > prerr_endline hash.{"foo"}; # would print "baz" http://camlcvs.inria.fr/cgi-bin/osearch?conf=humps&words=hashtbl with a slight different syntax: let hash = {}["foo", "bar"; "a", "b"] in hash{"foo"} <- "baz"; prerr_endline (hash{"foo"}) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy zack@{cs.unibo.it,debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia.it/zack/ " I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant! " -- G.Romney ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners