> Depends on the context, when I wrote an RTS I had "maps" everywhere and it > wasn't a hash table. Likewise when I write a spell checker the last word I > want to have in my stdlib is "dict".
These are very specific instances though, and not sure how keywords Map or Dict would really get in your way. And what if you were writing software for a furniture company inventory, youd have a lot of tables and they wouldnt be hash tables :p