[Oberon] How to mimic an associative array

[Chris Burrows]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Duke Normandin [mailto:dukeofperl at ml1.net] 
>Sent: Sunday, 5 December 2010 1:10 AM
>To: ETH Oberon and related systems
>Subject: Re: [Oberon] How to mimic an associative array
>
> To use Sven's method, I suppose 
>I would have to use A2 as my programming environment. Or 
>Component Pascal maybe?
>

If you use Component Pascal there is an excellent chance all the work has
already been done for you - all you have to do is find it. As there are
(IIRC) more than 70,000 procedures available in the Microsoft.NET v2.0
framework (an early version that I still use) that can be a challenge. 

A promising looking candidate for mimicking associative arrays is called
'NameValueCollection'. The documentation is here:

http://tinyurl.com/nvcoll

Also, John Gough released the latest version (v.1.3.10) of GPCP for .NET
just a week ago on CodePlex:

http://gpcp.codeplex.com

Regards,
Chris Burrows

CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp