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Programming Paradigms
Introduction to Functional Programming in Scheme
Property lists

A property list is a flat, even length list of associations

Association list

Property list

((peter . "windows")
 (lars . "mac")
 (paw . "linux")
 (kurt . "unix"))
(peter "windows"
 lars "mac"
 paw "linux"
 kurt "unix")

A comparison between association lists and property lists. In this example we associate keys (represented as symbols) to string values.

Go to exerciseThe get-prop function for property lists