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Subject: Re: Passing a dictionary to, for example,  the TOC entry formatter
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Joseph wrote:

> I think that it's likely that dictionaries will be implemented using
> data "packed" inside another variable, rather than as csnames. This
> makes it easier to do things like "clear the dictionary" without needing
> to know every entry type.

Ah.  So something like

\def\mydict{\@@dict{
  \@item{apple}{Jonathan}%
  \@item{plum}{Victoria}%
}}

If you have to program this sort of thing in TeX, something like this may be a good idea.

But I don't think programming everything in TeX is a good idea.  Will LaTeX3 provide a DOM?  Programmed in TeX macros?

--
Jonathan


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