Associative array for array of classes

[Sean Kelly]

The correct use of AAs is so intuitive I'm amazed anyone ever gets it 
wrong.  It's times like this when I wish I'd been more vocal about 
actually liking the old syntax :-p


Alberto Simon wrote:
> You should use '(("3" in assoc) == null)' instead of '(assoc["3"] is null)'
> 
> Regards,
> Alberto Simon
> "Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998 at yahoo.com> escribió en el mensaje 
> news:e2qh6d$1lfk$2 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> clayasaurus wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Class[char[]] assoc;
>>> assoc["3"] = new Class;
>>>
>>> Now, lets say I want to test if assoc["3"] has already been initialized 
>>> before I allocate it, but testing it with
>>>
>>> if (assoc["3"] is null)
>>>   assoc["3"] = new Class;
>>>
>>> I get a seg fault.
>> <snip>
>>
>> That's strange.  It should be an ArrayBoundsError.
>>
>> Stewart. 
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