23 questions linked to/from How to make use of Associations?
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### Does Mathematica have Month Range and Day range?

It is known that CharacterRange["a", "z"] gives list of characters from a to z. Does Mathematica have something similar for weekdays and months of the year? ...
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### Assigning to multiple variables in a list the values in another list

I have two lists, one contains the variables and the other the corresponding values that the variables should take. ...
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### Interdependent SetterBars with symbolic contents

In this question, I learned how to cascade or nest interdependent Setter and SetterBar controls with numerical Ranges. The ...
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### Memoization with pure functions?

Is this possible? If I have a simple function, say: f=If[#>0,1,2]& then for each value of # this will re-evaluate f right? Is it possible to define a ...
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### Association and rudimentary object-oriented programming

Doesn't Association provide us rudimentary object oriented programming via constructs like ...
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### Timing: extracting from List VS extracting from Association

I was wondering, why is extracting from an Association slightly faster than extracting from a List? ...
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### Which Object-oriented paradigm approach to use in Mathematica?

Which Object-Oriented Paradigm (OOP) approach to use in Mathematica for: general implementation, or a particular project? There are a lot of related questions and answers in MSE on doing OOP that ...
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### How to efficiently write into PackedArrays that are stored in Associations?

Using Association to generate complicated data types is very comfortable, in particular if one uses those tricks from How to make use of Associations?. However, I ...
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### How does thing[“property”] syntax work?

Many builtin "things" support the (usually undocumented) syntax thing["property"], and usually the available properties can be listed using thing["Properties"] (thing["Methods"] might work too). ...
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### Does Mathematica support an unordered set (e.g. hashset) data structure?

Does Mathematica support any data structure representing an unordered set (without multiplicity) of Mathematica expressions? I would like this data structure to support $O(1)$ insertion, deletion, and ...
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### Create tree association using table

Suppose I have a table like the following (This example is simplified, actual table is much larger), it is read from external files: ...
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### Using Associations and Pattern matching in numerical functions possibly broken

It looks like the very young feature of pattern matching (/replacing) within Associations (https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/119542/6804), with or without ...
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### How does one create getter methods that depend on a variable (besides its argument)?

In the (as always) insigthful answer by Leonard Shifrin to this MMA SE post https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/52393/how-to-make-use-of-associations ...