[plt-scheme] likely 3.99.0.22 -> 3.99.0.23 incompatibility: hash tables

Matthew Flatt mflatt at cs.utah.edu
Mon Apr 7 20:39:24 EDT 2008


At Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:18:16 -0400, Aleks Bromfield wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:51:40PM +0100, Dave Gurnell wrote:
> > "Table" seems like a very popular and loaded term. Is something like  
> > "hash" a viable alternative that would reduce naming collisions?
> 
> Why not "dict"? I normally use "dictionary" to refer to the ADT and
> "hash table" to refer to a specific implementation.

I would have gone with `dictionary' if the word were shorter. I prefer
to avoid abbreviations like `dict', but that's not a hard-and-fast
rule.

Matthew




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