On 5/26/07, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think that's part of it. But another problem is that many people don't know the "official" names for the data structures they're thinking of, e.g. "trie" or "skiplist" or whatever, so they can't search very effectively for it. It does seem like a user-applied keyword tagging scheme on CPAN (e.g. search.cpan.org) would be very fruitful and would go a long way toward solving a lot of the organization-related problems people bring up on this list. -Ken
Does perlmonks have a wiki with a data structures section? Wikipedia has loads of data structures documents on it -- for instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiplist has links to SkipDB and an implementation in C#. Creating a norm of linking data structure modules from the wikipedia article on the structure in question would do the trick using existing infrastructure, as would other proposals that do not demand tiers of new services appear from nowhere.
