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Other than using different BIFs to search tables and the name having to begin with TAB is there any reason why one should be used instead of the other in any situation?
Backward compatibility to the No Roman Numeral RPG? We had tables, but the functionality was essentially limited to LOKUP. They were used to compress conditionals, for instance
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* is it a London post code?
pcode lokup tabx 20
20 ...
instead of
pcode comp 'SE20' 20
n20 pcode comp 'TW1' 20
...
Arrays allowed one to traverse the list sequentially for things like
accumulating financial results by accounting period or month instead of
declaring 13 or 12 individual variables.
Bad old days. Much better now. --buck
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