On 2007-07-25, at 16:11 EDT, Lars T Hansen wrote:
On 7/25/07, Brad Fults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/25/07, Brendan Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can take maximum blame for advocating Dict over Dictionary, based
on brevity and the Python type, transliterated appropriately
(capitalized, I mean ;-).
But Hash is just as good by that crude metric.
We'll have another straw poll. Hash was mooted early on, but then
Dictionary stuck, and later I urged brevity. Thanks for the
reminder.
If it wasn't clear from the subject line of this thread, I also vote
for "Hash" over "Dict" for similar reasons to those already
mentioned.
The nice thing about "Dictionary" or "Dict" or "Map" is that it says
something about functionality, whereas "Hash" or "HashMap" says
something about implementation. On the other hand, the interface is
plainly hashcode-based, so it's possible it's only fair to emphasize
that fact in the name.
If so, I vote for "Hashtable": "Hash" is ugly and overly short;
"HashMap" is BiCapitalized and "map" is less common than "table" in
the context of hash structures. (Java has both, unsurprisingly, and
they are essentially the same, Hashtable being synchronized and
HashMap not.)
If this is the poll:
1. Map (because it maps one thing to another)
2. Dictionary (not as good because it makes me think keys must be
strings)
3. Dict (dorky Unixese for an English word)
-∞. Hash (only nerds would have a clue what this means)
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