🔑 Associative (Hash) array §

= general implementation of an 🖇 Array (programming), not limited to integers as an index

Basic principle §

• Key: data strucure of any type used to access a…
• Value: data strucure of any type associated with the key

Pros&Cons §

• 👍 any data-type can be used as a key
• 👎 not sorted → forall loop necessary → less efficient