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Re: array/dictionary advice needed

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Subject: Re: array/dictionary advice needed
From: Mark Guertin <guertin at brucemaudesign dot com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:43:13 -0500
References: <A647FCC6-08A0-11D8-90CB-000A958557FC at brucemaudesign dot com> <BE4CF0AB-08A2-11D8-A08E-000A95983FBE at ljug dot com>

On Oct 27, 2003, at 12:26 PM, Will Leshner wrote:

From what I've read so far I thought that collections where a good point for me to start, but now I see that collections should not be used and instead dictionaries should be, but from what i can read here they don't work the same way ... with a collection you could sort of do what i was looking for.

Aside from the hash table lookups is there an advantage to using dictionaries for this?


I guess I'm confused. What can you do with a collection that you can't do with a dictionary?


I guess it's just a different implementation for the keys now that I read further along ... but it still isn't able to do multidimensional data is my point.

I guess crying about it won't help any, but things like this make RB less and less appealing over time when you have to write all kinds of classes just to do decent data manipulation :( I haven't had to deal with this sort of stuff manually in years :(

Mark


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