[fpc-pascal] Re: What is the portable approach?

[Alan Mead]

--- L505 <fpc505 at z505.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> > AM> I have data that would fit an associative array if they 
> > AM> really existed in Pascal
> > 
> > I remember spotting this in the "Contributed Units" section,
> > although I don't know if it will suit your needs:
> >   http://www.behrenhoff.de/pascal/hash.zip

[snip]

> Interesting - let us know if it works out.

I really appreciated Jeff's note.  But I think this unit only stores
text strings and values--already better supported, syntactically, by
the psuedo-associative "trick" behavior of string lists:

MyHash := TStrubglist.Create;
MyHash['Alan'] := 'Mead';

I also have to admit being worried by some of the code... like the
lack of error checking (as noted by the author).

-Alan