As mentioned previously, the
SuperCollider language provides for many more kinds of data structures. The following Collections are useful, but much more complex than those listed above. For usage instructions, refer to the
SuperCollider documentation.
Dictionary: stores and allows retrieval of data by arbitrary Objects (for example, by symbols, rather than by index numbers).
Library: a type of Dictionary. Objects inserted can be used by any Object in the program, like books in a real-world library can be used by anybody who walks in.
Set: an unordered Collection of like Objects, where no two elements are identical.
SortedList: a List where all elements are kept in a sorted order, regardless of how they are added. The inserted Objects should have a useful ordering method, numerical or lexicographic (alphabetic, for example).
