Dictionaries broken in 3.9a
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sun Sep 18 07:33:49 UTC 2005
Strange since we did not even introduce the changes of andrew on
associations....
I will look at that.
Stef
On 18 sept. 05, at 08:48, Andreas Raab wrote:
> Hi -
>
> Trying out some stuff, I noticed that
>
> dd := Dictionary new.
> dd at: nil put: #none.
>
> will raise an error in 3.9a saying that "Dictionaries cannot
> meaningfully key by nil". That makes no sense. Dictionaries can
> perfectly contain nil keys, they always have and they always will.
>
> Could somebody please explain to me why we no longer allow a
> perfectly good key in dictionaries?
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
>
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