Uses for Property Lists

>Can somebody please explain an application where a property
>list is a major advantage so that I can get a *feel* of how best to use
>them.

Try the now-notorious pseudo-switch statement:

   set actionsList = [#help: "doHelp", #quit: "doQuit", #blah: "doBlah" ...]
   do string(getAProp(actionsList, switchVariable))

Or any application where you want to refer to list elements by name rather than by position (position-dependence can be an easy source of error, especially for complex data structures).

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