Re: Getting All Keys In A Key Table

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:16:15PM -0600, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
> I'm trying to understand keys. Is there a way to get all the keys in a
> given table (e.g., the equalivent of dict.keys() in Python)? I don't

I remember asking for this years ago, and someone clever (JC, perhaps? or MK?)
explaining why it wasn't possible because you couldn't be sure
when the key table was complete. I'm with you, cos I am naive, and
cannot understand why we have such a useful data structure without
a way of dumping it.

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