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last updated 2 years ago by effbot #
The dictionary section says "Dictionaries are sometimes found in other languages as associative memories or associative arrays". I've never seen the "associative memory" variant; does anyone know the source? Is it relevant? Isn't things like "hashes" or "mappings" a lot more common ?

I've heard LISP folk talk about associative arrays. '((a 5) (b 7) (c 4)
2 years ago #