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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:02:18 -0500
From: "Chris Kauffman" <kauffman@cs.umn.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Getting an element of a hashtable: simple ... or is it?
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I'm curious what sort of scenario calls for retrieving any single
element of a hash table (which is potentially empty?). It seems most
of the cases I deal with involve simply storing or iterating over all
the elements.

Cheers,
Chris