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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
June 1, 2005 05:57
Subject:
re: Keys
Message ID:
a06210205bec35fb183b8@[172.24.18.155]
At 7:10 PM -0700 5/31/05, TOGoS wrote:
> > The 'used as' type indicates whether this key
>> is to be used to do a by-integer-index (array)
>> access or by-string-index (hash) access.
>
>Why not extend this to properties, too?
Because properties (and attributes) are metadata. At the moment
properties aren't ordered, but they could be I suppose. (well...
maybe) Attributes certainly are. You may want to access them by name
or by offset, in which case you wouldn't want an as-property flag in
the key, but rather use a key structure to access properties and
attributes.
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Dan
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