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Re: More LIST weirdness? [message #73977 is a reply to message #73976]

Tue, 14 December 2010 12:09

penteado
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On Dec 14, 6:06 pm, Paulo Penteado <pp.pente...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So to me there seems to be a bug in hash::remove() and in
> list::_overloadbracketsrightside(), as both should be throwing errors
> instead of silently returning !null. The reason is, as I wrote in the
> other thread, that a list/hash having !null elements is not the same
> as one having no elements (or just not having the element specified by
> the index/key) .That is the whole reason for the length argument in
> list::init(), and hash::init() assigning !null to elements when only
> keys are passed.

In fact, when IDL 8 was still in the Tech Previews, I suggested having
hash return !null for non-existing keys, but others convinced me of
these reasons why it should throw an error.

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		Re: More LIST weirdness? By: David Fanning on Tue, 14 December 2010 12:13
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