Dear Revolutionaries Thanks for all the suggestions - I appreciate the help.
I have to say that I agree with Troy - it seems like rr could really use some kind of elegant solution to this problem. Sure - it's possible to work around it, but having to code these kind of basic housekeeping functions introduces more room for the unexpected to occur and ultimately makes rr less robust if you have to rely on a bunch of extra code to do something that could be innate in the language. IMHO, the single greatest feature in the Python language is the nestable keyed libraries that can be freely mixed with lists. How beautiful, simple, elegant and still readable ten years later it is, when you can use something like: for client in myBusiness["clients"]["european"]: if client["city"] == "Munich": dataBase["My Munich Clients"].append(client) I would vote for something like this in rr :) Best Gordon --- Troy Rollins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 10, 2004, at 2:44 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > > It's "real", but it is NOT *within* another array. > > In Rev, you cannot do something equivalent to > > > > put "abc" into a[1] > > put "def" into a[2] > > > > put "ghi" into b["z"] > > put a into b["y"] > > > > which you can (with different syntax) in Perl, > Python, (I think) Ruby, > > .... > > Or in Lingo - > > myVar = [#check: [#this: [#out: "Cool"]]] > > put myVar.check.this.out > -- "Cool" > > put myVar[1][1][1] > -- "Cool" > > People will debate the usefulness of such > constructs, but I have yet to > see anything in Transcript which is nearly so > elegant for complex > iterative evaluations. I strongly believe that > Transcript needs this > type of data structuring... but then of course, I > don't let go easily > to what I've learned and switch to what some Rev > users would consider > more "native" data management techniques which *are* > available, though > *much* more "wordy" to get there, and certainly do > not iterate as > elegantly. > -- > Troy > RPSystems, Ltd. > http://www.rpsystems.net > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > ===== :::::::::: Gordon Webster :::::::::: _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution