Re: Hashtable iter/remove

From: Xavier Leroy (Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 15:25:00 MET DST

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> Hashtables are mutable objects. What happens if
> I iterate over a hashtable, applying Hashtble.remove
> to (some of) the elements? Will this work?

It will work in the sense that nothing will crash and you hashtable
will remain in a consistent state. However, some of the (key,data)
pairs you removed with Hashtbl.remove may still be presented later to
your iterated function.

- Xavier Leroy

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