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In article <SCOTT.92Aug3070403@nic.gac.edu>  writes:
> Don't get me wrong - I don't think anyone is somehow an idiot because
> they don't understand the intricacies of Storage.  Indeed, I don't
> know many people who make use of Storage very effectively.  I just
> don't think that the _examples_ should be done by someone who doesn't
> understand it ...

One thing I think messes up a lot of people is that Storage and HashTable  
(quite the odd couple!) do _very_ different things with (void *)'s.  In  
Storage, they are used as generic pointers to data chunks of known size, while  
in HashTable they are used somewhat less elegantly as generic 32-bit variables.   
But---making the confusion worse---HashTable checks equality of the 32-bit keys  
in a type-dependent manner which does dereference certain pointer types [e.g.  
(char *)'s are compared as strings].

I had to crash a few test programs before I got this thru my head...
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