On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 16:45:50 -0500, Chris Huff wrote:
>In article <slr### [at] fwicom>, ron### [at] povrayorg 
>wrote:
>
>> I think I'd rather see associative arrays a la perl.
>
>Maybe Warp can implement that as a macro... :-)
>Could you give more information on what the syntax would be like? Aren't 
>associative arrays just structures that "associate" a string or hash 
>with a variable?

The Perl syntax, which is, well, Perl syntax, is  

$foo{"bar"}

which indicates "the scalar member of associative array foo having index
'bar'".

An associative array is a variable-sized data structure (a hash table, 
in Perl) which associates a key with an arbitrary scalar value.  Perl
uses them to do its equivalent of data structures, among other things.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

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