Re: Thanks guys..my project and my many problems

["Rodrigo García" <rodrigo.garcia@epfl.ch>]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Paul Gregory wrote:
> 
>>   type English is (big, black, cat, dog, es, small, the, white);
>>   type French is (grand, noir, chat, chien, est, petit, le, blanc);
> 
> 
> This is the core of your difficulties. Since the dictionary is
> meant to be extensible (as you yourself have noticed), using
> enumerations to encode the words is inappropriate - these types
> are fixed at compile-time, and you cannot add to them at runtime.
> 
> You need to represent your words as strings, and maintain a mapping
> table between English and French that way. It would be easy in C++
> or Perl, which come with built in map containers. In Ada, you'll
> have to roll your own.
> 

   I prefer Python for this. Not surprisingly, in Python they call these 
kind of containers "Dictionaries".

   If you are using GNAT, maybe you can try its hash table...

Rodrigo