What is the semantics of the <primitive: 210> special form? Do we prefer using Java implementations of data structures or do we roll our own.

I often see, in the implementation of OrderedCollection, lines like this:

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On Monday, February 25, 2013 4:42:29 PM UTC+4, kabelo moiloa wrote:

I often see, in the implementation of OrderedCollection, lines like this:

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      <primitive: 229>
So I ask myself, what is the semantics of <primitive: ...> 

Also for classes like Dictionary, do we piggyback java.util.Hashmap or do we roll our own.

Kind Regards,
Kabelo Moiloa

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