[Newbies] Best way to implement two-dimensional array

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Sep 3 07:26:43 UTC 2007


See

	http://www.mucow.com/squeak-qref.html#BraceArray

Another common way is to use a literal array #(...) and convert that  
into a Dictionary with a few statements. That way you use only a  
single literal.

- Bert -


On Sep 2, 2007, at 19:54 , John Almberg wrote:

> Ah... Now that's handy. Though it's not clear, at first glance, how  
> it works...
>
> Those curly braces aren't standard Smalltalk, are they? I need to  
> Google them.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the tip. That will make life much easier... I  
> was starting to think my table initialization was going to have a  
> lot of add: statements...
>
> -- John
>
>
> On Sep 2, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
>> No, but this comes close:
>>
>> {'key1'->'value1'. 'key2'->'value2'} as: Dictionary.
>>
>> - Bert -
>




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