Re: refcounting hash

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 06:14:52PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 
> >I'd like to be able to provide this as a non-singleton PMC class, with the
> >addition of a value lookup, and (possibly) iteration. But cut and paste is
> >evil. 
> 
> Well, the more general question is: how can we parameterize our 
> aggregates. We already have tons of arrays with (bit, double, int, PMC*, 
> STRING*) values.

> For now c&p helps :-)

I don't agree. c&p is evil, because it causes code bloat and propagates bugs.

And I'm not after parameterising the aggregates - I'd like to instantiate
another instance of what is currently a singleton, for the same type, with
the same specific, specialised behaviour.

Nicholas Clark