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0 pointsenriquto8y ago0 comments

> the conflation of hash-tables and array-lists into a single thing.

Precisely, one of the things that turns me off on Python (coming from Lua), is the unnatural proliferation of different container types.

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rrcaptain8y ago

Oddly that's one of the things I like most about python. The containers module has so many very useful things. Plus hash-tables and array-lists shouldn't ever really be the same thing.

civility8y ago

To each their own :-)

You might like Tcl - associative arrays (hash tables), arrays (lists), strings, numbers, and code are all the one type (at least conceptually).

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