In article <slr### [at] fwicom>, ron### [at] povrayorg 
wrote:

> We use curly braces for far too many things in POV already,
...snip...

That's funny, I didn't think they were used enough...


> But not like this.  This looks too much like an object syntax, and I 
> want it to be clear that the primary purpose of an associative array 
> is as a key/value dictionary.

Too much like object syntax? It seems closer to vectors to me, which 
makes it make even more sense...a vector has 3 elements with the keys 
being x, y, and z. Is your objection to the use of a single operator 
instead of brackets? How about:
AssocArray->NewIdent
or
AssocArray:NewIdent
or
NewIdent@AssocArray
or
AssocArray(NewIdent)

I think it would be better to use a more familiar syntax(the dot 
operator) than to use some rarely used character.

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