[PD] your favorite key:value data structure?

[Miller Puckette]

> 
> My suggestion would be to start with the more expressive vanilla object-- [text]-- and see 
> if it fulfills your needs. Keep in mind though that it is at core not a key/value store but instead 
> a 2-dimensional array of atoms. E.g., you can decide that the first item in each line is your 
> key, but the text class interface does nothing to prevent you from adding more lines that 
> duplicate that same key.
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
By default, "search" matches only lines whose first field(s) match the search
key(s).  OTOH, if you have a duplicate key and want to find anything besides the
first occurence of the key it will be tricky.

cheers
Miller