JavaScript Dictionary Object
Thanks to Stephen Neal for YASA (Yet Another SVG Article). Although this one's a tutorial so it's of more use than another "What's SVG?" article.
This morning I got overly-excited when I learnt that there is an IE JavaScript object called Dictionary. After the disappointment of learning that this doesn't mean we can do spell-checks I was still glad to learn of it. Basically it's what Java programmers know as a HashTable and works thus:
var urls = new Dictionary();
urls.add("CodeStore", "http://www.codestore.net");
urls.add("NotesTips", "http://www.notestips.com");
Then we can use it like this:
alert("CodeStore can be found at " + urls('CodeStore') );
The alternative is to use 2D arrays and have to find/know the index of each entry to get at its value. Nice. As well as add() there's exists(), remove(), and removeall()..
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