Dan Sugalski: # 'Kay, here's the preliminary assembly-level docs for keys, # which is how # we're going to be accessing entries in aggregates.
I'm probably just inexperienced and idiotic, but what's wrong with simple 'get_from_aggregate target, aggregate, key' and maybe 'get_list_from_aggregate target_list, aggregate, key_list'? (Obviously we'd shorten the names, but you get the idea.) target would be set to the actual element, not just a copy of it, so setting that would set the original. Individual aggregate types could decide for themselves what to do about currently non-existent keys. --Brent Dax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Configure pumpking for Perl 6 "Nothing important happened today." --George III of England's diary entry for 4-Jul-1776