On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ry...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > Stevie Strickland wrote: >> >> On Mar 26, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Ryan Culpepper wrote: >>> >>> I'm looking for opinions about noun phrases to replace >>> 'identifier-mapping'. I'd prefer something shorter. >> >> ... >>> >>> Here are some that I've thought of: >>> >>> id-table >>> id-hash >> >> Any particular reason you didn't consider id-map as well? > > Then there would be procedures '*-id-map-map'. I don't like that. I think > it's a bad idea to use 'map' as a noun when it's already used pervasively as > a verb.
If you're going to nounify it, it should be mapping. But I'm a fan of id-table; it means you're not tying yourself to an implementation that uses hash functions if you ever decide to change it. -- Carl Eastlund _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
