[Info-vax] DCL's flaws (both scripting and UI)

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

David Froble skrev den 2015-01-20 04:06:

> Stephen Hoffman wrote:

>>
>> Key-value stores.  These are a form of an in-memory indexed file. Specify
>> the key, get the value.   BASIC doesn't have anything similar built into
>> the language, though some folks do use RMS indexed files here.
>
> Oh, you mean like a doubly dimensioned array, or other structure, where I
> can load up some key-value pairs, then invoke a routine or code to take a
> key value and return the associated value?
>
> Different name for the same old things that have been done for many years.
> Perhaps refined, or specialized, but same thing as your description.  Maybe
> for the old way someone actually has to know how to design and implement
> code ....
>

A built-in standard data type in Python, "Dictionaries".

https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html#dictionaries

No routines to write, just use it...

Jan-Erik.