As the dictionary implementation seems to be based upon, or closely 
related to arrays, I tried to loop over a dict as if it where a Array. 
This doesnt work and yes, the docs are silent on this.

Is it possible?
Can it be made possible? (Are dicts kept in order?)

get the length / dimension_size and loop over a dict getting a key value 
pair as pseudo tuple as result.

#while (i < dimension_size(dict,1)-1)
    	#local (key, value) = dict[i];
#end

It would be useful when working with splines or boning and inverse 
kinematics to have both ways of accessing a dict. Another one would be 
appending dictionaries without knowing all the exact keys.

ingo

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Am 01.12.2018 um 20:45 schrieb ingo:
> As the dictionary implementation seems to be based upon, or closely
> related to arrays, I tried to loop over a dict as if it where a Array.
> This doesnt work and yes, the docs are silent on this.
> 
> Is it possible?
> Can it be made possible? (Are dicts kept in order?)

/Some/ mechanism to make it possible is on the ToDo list, but the plans 
are still quite fuzzy.

You could work around the lack of such a feature by maintaining a 
separate array of keys.

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in news:5c036710@news.povray.org clipka wrote:

> Am 01.12.2018 um 20:45 schrieb ingo:
>>[...]
>> Is it possible?
>> Can it be made possible? (Are dicts kept in order?)
> [...]
> 
> You could work around the lack of such a feature by maintaining a 
> separate array of keys.
> 

That's what I've done so far, keeping several Arrays as 'indexes' in the 
dict.

Thanks,

ingo

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