Re: associated lists

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Levent Yilmaz <address@hidden> writes:

  ly> I have a set of associated pairs. And want to execute some command on 
  ly> each pair. Say for example,

  ly> # define present-past tense pairs as follows
  ly> present_tense = go   do  sit call
  ly> past_tense    = went did sat called

  ly> # somehow generate this phony command for each pair
  ly> # using eval (or by other(?) means)
  ly> @echo $(present) today. $(past) yesterday.

  ly> What I want to accomplish in effect is simply using $(foreach ...) but 
  ly> iterate simultaneously through more than one list...

I'd check out the pairmap function in the GMSL:

    http://gmsl.sourceforge.net/

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