Arrays in Rev

[Troy Rollins]

On Jul 11, 2004, at 3:07 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> My post tells a story: it begins with things the reader understands 
> (Judy is very familiar with working with delimited lists) and branches 
> out to how associative arrays can be used to solve related problems 
> with much greater flexibility and, in many cases, ease.

I understand quite well Rev's associative arrays, at least on the base 
level that they have been described here and in the documentation, and 
I use them in my work.

But, I'll go ahead and ask for some additional insight. As you may 
know, I come from an extensive background in Director, which has syntax 
derived from the same source as Transcript, but evolved to being "list 
based" rather than "string based" as Transcript is.

In Director, it is VERY common to have extremely deeply nested arrays, 
often with tens of thousands of items dispersed across many layers of 
array nesting. These nested arrays can contain both associative arrays, 
and linear lists, and those in turn can contain either as well, and so 
on. Contents of these lists are easily target-able, and very rapidly 
accessible.

How is this done in Transcript, if at all? If not, what is the logical 
replacement? In some cases, I've gone to generating stacks and using 
cards to organize such data, but would prefer a variable structure for 
the speed, especially considering that the user never has to actually 
see the data in the stored/working form.

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Troy
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