Dynamic Dictionary Data Type? 2005-06-02 - By Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/2/05, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@(protected)> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, hadley wickham wrote:
>
> >> An environment is a hash table, and copying occurs only on modification,
> >> when any language would have to copy in this context.
>
> Caveat: the default is new.env(hash=FALSE), so an environment is a hash
> table in one sense but not necessarily so in the strict sense.
Can you expand on this? When would one use hash = TRUE vs.
the default?
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