On 2 Mar 2007, at 06:48, Mark Wieder wrote:
If I'm remembering this stuff correctly, the terms Hashtable and Associative Array refer to the same thing. Which one you use depends on how you were brought up. I suppose it may be simpler just to think of them as unordered collections of key/value pairs...
Interestingly (perhaps!!) is that ActionScript 3 (don't know about earlier versions) treats associative arrays and objects as equivalent things. From their docs: "Associative arrays are unordered collections of key and value pairs. " You don't write their docs, do you? :-) They can be instantiated by declaring either an array or an object.
It also allows the same syntax to refer to elements in standard (indexed?) arrays and objects (associative arrays). So myArray[4] is an index reference for an array, and myObject[someValue] can be used as a key reference for an object / associative array. So I guess someone coming from that environment might be understandably confused by Rev's behaviour.
Cheers Dave _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
