Re: equivalent for C-style init: structname varname[] = {...} ?

[Dimitri Maziuk]

On 11/18/2012 11:42 AM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> "have mixed-type fields" - "foo" and "foo bar" are _both_ strings, so it's the 
> same type.
>
> I suggest to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table first.
>
> "two" and 2 would be different types (string vs (integer) number), but it's not 
> what I was talking about.

But that was what *I* was talking about:
{
 string name;
 float value;
}
which an array or map does not allow. So octave structs are about as 
similar to structs as Pink Floyd is similar to Cherry Garcia ice cream.

Any yes, if they're hashmaps then obviously "foo bar" is a valid map 
key, but "a( 3 ).foo bar" is not a valid syntax. Because the space 
between foo and bar is a token separator.

Dima