[Cook] table lookup

[Peter Miller]

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 04:59, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> 
> If I have a table that is something like this:
> 
> Col 1			Col 2
> -----------------------------
> C			.c
> C++			.cpp
> Java			.j
> Yacc			.y
> etc.
> 
> 	Can I do a direct lookup up without writing a function to do it?

table-C = ".c"
table-C++ = ".cpp"
table-Java = ".j"
table-Yacc = ".y"

value = [table-[index]]

or you may need to cope with non-existant indexes

#include functions
value = [defined-or-null table-[index]]

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