The APL system I work on has implemented dictionaries using enclosed arrays
and user-defined functions for accessing them.
There's no reason we couldn't do this in J.

On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 5:50 AM Elijah Stone <elro...@elronnd.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Jan 2022, Elijah Stone wrote:
>
> > keys should not be ordered
>
> Agh!  I missed the obvious complication.  I still do not think ordered
> keys are a good idea, but this does not work with tolerant comparison.
>
>   -E
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