hash/dictionary data types in Pascal

[ceasless]

Hi senso,

Is it possible to add support for the Dictionary Pascal data type? It's really difficult to have to go back to looping through an entire array to find the element which matches what you are looking for.

For instance I want to be able to get the correct param out of a data structure by passing in its numeric representation, so that I can quickly build dynamic dispatches from the callback procedure.

[ceasless]

I figured out a way to do the kind of dynamic dispatch that I want without a hash type structure. Pretty obvious when I think about it:

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curIndex := N - parameterArray[0];
// do something with parameterArray[curIndex]

But still... hashes are cool.