Re: Are Associative Arrays unique to Perl?

(I'm responding to the subject line, so no quotes...)


I saw this question some time ago, and was so sure someone would post
this that I didnt bother. Since noone seems to have (that I can see),
let me add Rexx to the list. Rexx calls them "stemmed variables", but
they are really just associative arrays - the syntax places a "."
between the root of the stem and the variable that contains the key,
so that:


$hash{$key}


would be


hash.key


in Rexx. (In Rexx, any variable that hasnt been assigned to, springs
into existence with a string value that is the variable name's
uppercased version, so this works rather like Perl's barewords
interpretation). More details in private e-mail if the original
poster wants <sheepish grin> forgot who it was :-(


Sitaram.
[You can get much the same effect using Lisp property lists, and that
goes back to at least 1960. Any earlier refs? I think Lisp is
earlier than COMIT. -John]


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