On 2013-12-16, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2013-12-16, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Are there >>> any aggregate types at all? >> >> There are arrays with string keys (similar to Python dictionaries). > > Well... sort of. They can only hold strings, not other arrays. > They're not first-class entities: you can't pass them around > or keep them in local variables; they're always global. (And > there are no modules, so global is *truly* global.)
It's worse that I remembered -- I must have repressed most of my Tcl memories. > In short, they're a very poor substitute for having real data > structures. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
