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Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays

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Rui Maciel wrote:

> Victor Porton wrote:
> 
>> But what is the best way to do this if we want a MULTILEVEL associative
>> array? (indexed by first key "a", then by key "b", etc.)
>> 
>> I want to discuss the most elegant, short, and practical solution for
>> this kind of problems.
> 
> I don't know if it's the most elegant, but if you wish to have multiple
> keys map to a value then you can resort to a tuple containing both keys as
> your map's key.
> 
> That approach is very common.  For example, with the "dictionary of keys"
> matrix data structure, the matrix elements are stored in a key:value pair
> whose key is a (row, column) tuple.

It seems you have misunderstood me. I ask about forming a *multilevel* 
associative array like:

[1:[2:[[a:1, b:2, c:3],...]]]

where "1" a value of the key "a", "2" is a value of the key "b", etc.

-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org

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Generating multi-level associative arrays Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-06-22 21:19 +0300
  Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 08:30 +0100
    Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-06-23 15:16 +0300
      Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 16:02 +0100
        Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-06-23 18:06 +0300
          Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 18:52 +0100
            Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-06-24 14:52 +0300
              Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-06-24 14:53 +0300
  Solved: Generating multi-level associative arrays Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-06-24 20:36 +0300

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