From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "bburns.km" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: map.el and naming Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 08:58:19 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <1425398299282-351216.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <87lhji1aw8.fsf@petton.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425399130 22940 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2015 16:12:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 16:12:10 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 03 17:12:01 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YSpQO-00073i-0t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:12:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39529 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSpQN-0000ux-5C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:11:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33870) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSpDI-0007ju-31 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:58:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSpDB-0007B2-Gj for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:58:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mwork.nabble.com ([162.253.133.43]:65423) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSpDB-0007Ab-Bb for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:58:21 -0500 Original-Received: from msam.nabble.com (unknown [162.253.133.85]) by mwork.nabble.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ECE315C3414 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2015 07:58:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: iOS iPhone or iPad X-Received-From: 162.253.133.43 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:11:46 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183596 Archived-At: assoc would make sense, as it's for an associative array data type, though it might be a bit confusing as it's also the name of a function. >From the definition, | A map (aka associative array, dictionary, symbol table) is an abstract data type composed of a collection of (key, value) pairs, such that each possible key appears at most once in the collection. another possibility would be kv.el, for key-value - e.g. you sometimes hear them referred to as key-value stores. Then kv-map, kv-keys, kv-values, etc. Or keyvalue.el, then keyvalue-map, keyvalue-keys, etc. -- View this message in context: http://emacs.1067599.n5.nabble.com/map-el-and-naming-tp350974p351216.html Sent from the Emacs - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.