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browse -- browse the contents of an object

Description

browse x -- provides an interactive mechanism that allows the user to explore the hash table or list x.

A menu of numbered items is presented to the user that allow the user to inspect the class or parent of x. For a hash table, the keys are presented so the user can visit the corresponding values, and for a list, the entries are presented so the user can visit them. One of the menu items allows the user to go back to re-examine the previous item.

For the programmer

The object browse is a function closure.