The only reason I ever even considered it was because I was looking at Python dictionaries and got to wondering how I could link multiple dictionaries without putting one inside of another, nested style.
The end result was after several days of thinking it over and playing with different ideas, something I've come to call tesseract episodic dictionaries, or TED for short. Not to go into a long technical explanation, but if you consider a Rubik's cube, the center mechanism is the tesseract, and all the cubelets around it belong to one of nine different dictionaries, either defined by length, width, or breadth.
If you can ever figure a way for Sage to talk in DMs, I'll explain it in a technical manner to him so he can turn around and explain it to you however he knows you'll understand it the best.