Oct. 20, 2004
7:04 a.m.
James Y Knight wrote:
But since I provide the list, I can guarantee that there aren't. And I need the ordering. And even if there are duplicates, it's not a horrible thing. It just means there'll be two entries in the menu that mean the same thing. Under some conditions you might even want that.
For the sake of argument, I can't think of _any_ circumstances where I'd want two different objects associated with the same key. Can you? How would you go about determining which object was actually chosen? -- Alex Levy WWW: http://mesozoic.geecs.org "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -- Salvor Hardin, Isaac Asimov's _Foundation_