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Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays

From bart <bc@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.misc
Subject Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays
Date 2025-12-28 23:07 +0000
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On 28/12/2025 22:54, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:32:36 +0000, bart wrote:
> 
>> In any case, it all looks messy, whatever the language.
> 
> Look at the “odometer style” example that Stefan Ram posted.

That 'odometer' method was also used in the example I posted.

That's part of what I consider messy.

But solutions really depend on the problem space and the sorts of things 
you want to with this data structure.

Maybe a 'dict' is better approach, especially if the structure can be 
irregular and/or sparse.

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Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-12-26 12:25 +0100
  Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2025-12-28 12:53 +0000
    Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-12-28 14:13 +0000
      Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-12-28 14:29 +0000
        Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-12-28 14:41 +0000
          Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-12-28 14:45 +0000
            Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-12-28 23:22 +0000
        Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-12-28 15:53 +0100
    Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-12-28 15:47 +0100
      Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2025-12-30 16:29 +0000
        Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-01-01 12:21 +0100
          Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-01-01 17:18 +0100
  Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-12-28 15:32 +0000
    Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-12-28 23:48 +0100
    Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-28 22:54 +0000
      Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-12-28 23:07 +0000
        Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-28 23:29 +0000
  Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-12-28 21:43 +0000
    Re: Algol 68 (or generally) - arbitrarily nested arrays of arrays Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-12-28 23:50 +0100

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