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> I've a hard time imagining someone who can see a convincing case for the one, but not for the other.

In theory yes, IMHO practically many of those cases wouldn't be implemented with arrays right away.

For instance avoiding typos in keys - in cases where indices have to be reproduced correctly it's anyway better to use a hash.

And if performance prohibits using hashes, there is nothing faster than using constant lists because of constant folding at compilation ...

Cheers Rolf

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