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- From: jhd@irfu.se (Jan D.)
- Subject: Re: What's the best idiom for storing keyed records?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.072146.11994@irfu.se>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 07:21:46 GMT
- References: <l90cclINNrjo@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> <1992Aug19.004516.12825@news.eng.convex.com>
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
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- In FAQ 17 tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
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- >17) How can I make an array of arrays or other recursive data types?
- >
- [stuff deleted]
- >
- > You could take a look at recurse.pl package posted by Felix Lee
- > <flee@cs.psu.edu>, which lets you simulate vectors and tables (lists and
- > associative arrays) by using type glob references and some pretty serious
- > wizardry.
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- Anybody know where this can be found?
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- > is the name of that person's parent. Make sure you remember that
- > $parent{'adam'} is 'adam'. :-) With a little care, this approach can
- >
- $parent{'adam'} is 'god' and $parent{'god'} is 'god', no? :-)
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- Jan D.
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