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

> Yes.  Without brackets of some kind, it would be harder to read and 
> ambiguous to parse:

I was thinking that only valid identifiers would be useable as keys. 
Basically a group of variables called by name, something that could 
probably be done easily with a sort of name-mangling.
AssocArray:Val3 would be translated to _AssocArray__Val3_ or something 
similarly unlikely to be used by the user. No special data structures 
would need to be added, but it would be a little more limited.

If you can use any values as a key, but not identifiers, it is a bit 
different...how about the function-like notation? Or just go back to the 
[] array notation, which seems to work well enough in this case.

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Christopher James Huff
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