>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic
<hniksic(a)xemacs.org> writes: 
    Hrvoje> Python's [] is much more than array access: it's a
    Hrvoje> syntactic shorthand for __getitem__/__setitem__, and it's
    Hrvoje> these generic concepts that we lack.  If we do introduce
    Hrvoje> them, they should work on all kinds of objects (e.g. hash
    Hrvoje> tables and lists),
I've always thought that any object that advertises a property list
should work with `put'/`get' (eg, charsets and faces).  Maybe we could
get away with generalizing `putf'/`getf' in this way?
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