The gentabs module extends the Nimrod standard strtabs module but extends it to allow other than strings to be stored in the table. The keys are required to be strings, but the values may be any Nimrod or user defined type. This module supports matching of keys in case-sensitive, case-insensitive and style-insensitive modes.

Note: This module (or the compiler) is broken!!! The test cases in the gentabs module file run correctly for basic Nimrod data types as well as user-defined types (for the most part). It fails, however, on tables-of-tables. That is, you cannot embed a gentab table in a gentab table. Caveat: Actually you can but accessing the stored table within a loop using pairs seems to fail. That is,

for k,v in pairs(z): for k2,v2 in pairs(v): echo( "$#: $# <-> $#" % [k, k2,$v2] )

does not compile ("Error: execution of an external program failed").

If you stay away from tables-of-tables it seems OK though.