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| author | dkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> | 2004-10-04 13:06:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | dkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> | 2004-10-04 13:06:33 (GMT) |
| commit | b33be65e4a3a29aae1ef59d24db32aff7dcb84ab (patch) | |
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Clarify that dicts are unordered [Bug 1032243] and add another example.
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diff --git a/doc/DictObj.3 b/doc/DictObj.3 index 01e20cf..f56d833 100644 --- a/doc/DictObj.3 +++ b/doc/DictObj.3 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: DictObj.3,v 1.5 2004/10/02 17:00:38 dkf Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: DictObj.3,v 1.6 2004/10/04 13:06:34 dkf Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH Tcl_DictObj 3 8.5 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures" @@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ sub-dictionaries of the main dictionary object passed to them. .PP Tcl dictionary objects have an internal representation that supports efficient mapping from keys to values and which does not guarantee any -particular ordering of keys within the dictionary. +particular ordering of keys within the dictionary (the underlying +basic data-structure is a hash table created with \fBTcl_InitObjHashTable\fR). The procedures described in this man page are used to create, modify, index, and iterate over dictionary objects from C code. .PP |