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Re: Dynamic typing (part 3)

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From: Richard A. O'Keefe
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 05:38
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In article <22MAR91.09242511@uc780.umd.edu>, cs450a03@uc780.umd.edu writes:
> Examples of the second also can be done in statically typed languages,
> things like sorting, searching, and selection.  But even C (which some
> people have said we shouldn't be using as an example of a statically
> typed language) doesn't have a hashed search (for un-ordered items) in
> any of the libraries I know of.

Log on to a UNIX System V box and type
	man hsearch
It has been around for _years_.  (See also lsearch and tsearch.)
-- 
Seen from an MVS perspective, UNIX and MS-DOS are hard to tell apart.
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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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Subject: Re: Dynamic typing (part 3)
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Date: 25 Mar 91 05:38:16 GMT
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