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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Cc: clisp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:56:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lizcbwlv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: BANLkTimyVq6ceY9HxN8zVFGJuo5CK5eBmg@mail.gmail.com

Hi,

William ML Leslie <william.leslie.ttg@gmail.com> writes:

> 0. Objects in javascript are maps from string keys to any value.  If
> they are to be cast as hashes or dictionaries when passed to a
> language that allows non-string keys, and the language adds a
> non-string key, what happens to the javascript object?

For a simpler example, see Elisp’s #nil in Guile.  The question of how
Scheme code should handle it wasn’t an easy one...

Thanks,
Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-14 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-13 13:45 A Modest Proposal Noah Lavine
2011-04-13 15:23 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-04-14  1:35   ` Noah Lavine
2011-04-14  2:06   ` William ML Leslie
2011-04-14 16:56     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2011-04-16 20:46     ` Noah Lavine

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