Separating a Hash type from Object

[Brendan Eich]

On May 2, 2007, at 12:56 PM, P T Withington wrote:

> Have you considered Hash being a new native type with its own rules
> for ToPrimitive, ToString, and ToObject?

We have considered a native Dictionary class, as I reported recently.  
It lacked sugar; it didn't support weak refs. We stepped back and  
deferred it.

Because Dictioinary required users to call has, get and set methods,  
no changes to avoid bad shadowing of toString and valueOf arose with  
the proposal.

/be