Re: map.el and naming

[Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>]

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bburns.km writes:

> 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.

I thought about that, but assoc.el and kv.el already exist.

Nico
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