QBJS Swimming fish with Kelp

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The more I think about it the more inclined I am to change the way this is working in the next release of QBJS to increase compatibility with QB64.  I think instead of extending the array to also support associative arrays (dictionaries), I'll pull this functionality out into a new type called Dictionary.  Then I can implicitly convert any index values passed to an array to an integer, just as in QB64.

Actually, I take that back...  So as not to introduce a new keyword that could have other backwards compatibility challenges, I think I will just continue to use the array syntax.  However, if no sizing is specified (e.g.  dim lookup() As String) then I will assume it is an associative array (dictionary).  Otherwise, we'll assume it is a normal QBasic style array and implicitly convert the index values to integers.  This should make it more compatible in the future with examples like @bplus shared.

Here is what it looks like if you want to create a dictionary: