8.4 Tables
The term table has different meanings to different programmers. To most assembly language programmers, a table is nothing more than an array that is initialized with some data. The assembly language programmer often uses tables to compute complex or otherwise slow functions. Many very-high-level languages (for example, SNOBOL4 and Icon) directly support a table data type. Tables in these languages are essentially associative arrays whose elements you can access with a noninteger index (for example, floating point, string, or any other data type). HLA provides a table module that lets you index an array using a string. However, in this chapter we will adopt the assembly language programmer's view of tables.
A table is an array containing ...
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