Re: [q-lang-users] Association lists

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Jir(í Spitz wrote:
> Nonetheless, I discovered another small bug. In dict and similarly hdict 
> should be
> 
> update D:Dict (X, Y) = insert D (X,Y);
> or
> update D:Dict XY = insert D XY;
> 
> instead of
> 
> update D:Dict X Y = insert D (X,Y);

Nope, update takes three args, see stddecl.q. Citing the manual:

 update D X Y

    same as insert D (X,Y)

I.e., for dictionaries update is just a completely curried form of
insert. Has always been that way.

Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
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