[apluslist] Re: apluslist Digest, Vol 3, Issue 7

[John.Mizel at morganstanley.com]

riOn Wed, 21 Apr 2004 apluslist-request at aplusdev.net wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:48:43 -0500
> From: "Steven H. Rogers" <steve at shrogers.com>
> Subject: [apluslist] Dictionaries
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> Dictionaries are very useful data structures with efficient hash table
> based implementations Python and K.  Slotfiller seems to be the closest
> analog in A+, with the pick function used for access.
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> Is this hash table based, more like an association list, or something
> else entirely?
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> Is it suitable for large dictionaries or indexes?
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> Is there a complementary function to pick for adding a name value pair
> to a slotfiller?
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> Regards,
> Steve
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