Re: Hash arrays [was: does property exists in a record]
Re: Hash arrays [was: does property exists in a record]
- Subject: Re: Hash arrays [was: does property exists in a record]
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:09:52 +1000
On 14/8/01 10:49 AM +1000, Timothy Bates, email@hidden, wrote:
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>> I just wanted to point out that Arthur Knapp made a lovely AppleMod called,
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>> AssociativeLib that makes pseudo-associative arrays
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> Thank you, Greg. I would like to point out that number of others have
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> also produced "look-up list" methods
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More evidence that associative arrays are in demand
Yes...
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and need to be a high priority revision for AppleScript 2.x
But that doesn't necessarily follow.
From what I can see, the clamor for them here seems to be limited to a
relatively small number of players. Maybe the rest are just silently
nodding, but I suspect not.
I'm not saying they're not a good idea -- I'm not a programmer, and I don't
know enough about them to have a view. Maybe if I had them, I'd think they
were the greatest thing.
But I do know that every item that gets priority does so at something else's
expense. From that perspective, I'd like to see some argument for why they'd
improve the life of the average scripter.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden