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1. Dictionaries in Euphoria

• Posted by GreenEuphorian Dec 17, 2012
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Since Euphoria does not explicitly support dictionaries (key/value pairs), I was wondering what would be the best way to implement them manually. Could it simply be via nested binary sequences? What I have in mind is something very simple, like

{ {key, value}, {key, value} }

as a surrogate for the canonical form used in other languages like

{ key: value, key: value }

Does using a binary sequence for each key/value pair (as described above) have any inconvenience as compared to the explicit form with a colon used in other languages?

Thanks