On Monday 07 June 2004 07:47, Gavin Sinclair wrote: > On Monday, June 7, 2004, 11:27:41 PM, David wrote: > > I think what we may be running into is the possibility that > > "ducktyping a Hash" is in a sense a contradiction in terms. > > Let me just say that Sean, despite his protestations, doesn't really > want to check that something is "hash-like". He wants to check that > something is "map-like". Forget fetch, store, [], etc. A map has two > essential properties: "keys" and "values". OK, we can all go home now Whatever you need to call it, I'm up for it. =) Sean O'Dell