From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-08-04T23:31:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Assoc Class (Hash Pairs)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Sawyer" <transami@transami.net>

>
> i think i understand what your getting at.
>
> but on particulars, there is such a thing as ArrayElement. it is called
> Object. for an array's elements are objects (100% O), while a hashes are
> not. rather they are some sort of syntatical-construct-of-association
> between two objects (nil-O)
>

Hashes don't have "elements".  They map Objects to Objects.  That is their
interface; that is what they are.  "Map" is an English-language term used in
documentation to describe the function of a Hash.  You can iterate over the
"mappings", and you are given the Objects contained therein.

Hashes are no more, and no less, object-oriented than Arrays.

Cheers,
Gavin