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In discussions just before and during the Scheme Workshop, Anton raised the idea of separating the m:1 and m:n (single vs multivalue) dictionaries into two types. This makes a tremendous amount of sense. The current draft has this change, with a Map type for single-key->single-value collections, and a Dictionary subtype for single-key->multiple-value collections. While correcting this, I made an attempt to rename the bulk operators to be more consistent and less confusing. The current thought is: *-{operator} - ordinary single instance call *-{operator}-all - multiple value call *-{operator}-from - call requiring another collection as a source *-{operator}-all-from - multivalue version of above. For example, dict-delete (deletes one key/value mapping), dict-delete-all (deletes all mappings from a key), dict-delete-from (deletes one key/value mapping for all keys in a source bag), and dict-delete-all-from (deletes all key/value mappings for each key in the source bag). You can view the work-in-progress at sgmiller.org/code/srfi-44.html. The concrete collection specification still needs to be updated to match completely. Scott --
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