Re: Still no records

ZB wrote:
The problem for 8.4.x user/programmer could be (it was for me, anyway...),
that although you can set array of lists - you cannot set a list of arrays,
which could be a kind of replacement for records. Yes, Tcl's associative
array could be a real record-ersatz, if only could I set a list of such
arrays then.

Yes, I read about tricks with variable names - but we agree, that such tricks
are "workarounds - not solutions"?

Get the 'dict' extension for 8.4 or just get 8.5 (b1 should be no more
than a week or so away) which has the functionality integrated. That
gives you a (reasonably) efficient way of handling values that contain a
by-name mapping.

Donal.
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