Chapter 8. Tables
An associative table is a set of key-value pairs. It’s like an array except that the indices can be values of any type. Many applications use tables. Compilers, for example, maintain symbol tables, which map names to sets of attributes for those names. Some window systems maintain tables that map window titles into some kind of window-related data structures. Document-preparation systems use tables to represent indices: For example, the index might be a table in which the keys are one-character strings — one for each section of the index — and the values are other tables in which the keys are the strings for the index entries themselves and the values are lists of page numbers.
Tables have many uses, and the examples alone could ...
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