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Dictionary Pattern

Dictionaries are lists of pairs, where the first element of the pair has the function of a key to the second element which is called the value.

Directories may be implemented as associative lists or as hash tables. Associative lists in A++ are covered in section assoc.

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Georg P. Loczewski 2004-03-05

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