From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Petton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: map.el and naming Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:51:50 +0100 Message-ID: <87zj7tyzc9.fsf@petton.fr> References: <87lhji1aw8.fsf@petton.fr> <1425398299282-351216.post@n5.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425455549 22039 80.91.229.3 (4 Mar 2015 07:52:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 07:52:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "bburns.km" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 04 08:52:18 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 1YT46K-0006rB-J1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:52:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YT46J-0003Im-SF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 02:52:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48140) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YT462-0003Cs-Dz for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 02:52:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YT45y-0001UP-CM for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 02:51:58 -0500 Original-Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:60587) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YT45y-0001SW-4m for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 02:51:54 -0500 Original-Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id F25AF20880 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 2015 02:51:50 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 04 Mar 2015 02:51:52 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=x-sasl-enc:references:from:to:cc:subject :in-reply-to:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= smtpout; bh=tMD4J9E7NsX9EDUAGveCniHZSXA=; b=GXNwNuVcY3J7XRX9dC/0 /bHDcHhrMCkRi006ewV32mzlQZ/2j+GFf3OrerufC+LZYiavK3ekjCgdGQe6iC11 eCoq9Mb/SxMt46Zci0+VSvA0XD4VbtigjFdYGmkUVXdjEKXJy/clAOG5XCcyQ01F ue9hRiu5P0wnOUVenYzhlwQ= X-Sasl-enc: /7Z/5a72YmEp54M/m1zdYYwPo91r1VZiaZEUesc0Vquu 1425455511 Original-Received: from blueberry (unknown [95.155.228.124]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6C4E96800DA; Wed, 4 Mar 2015 02:51:51 -0500 (EST) In-reply-to: <1425398299282-351216.post@n5.nabble.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 66.111.4.26 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:183630 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable bburns.km writes: > assoc would make sense, as it's for an associative array data type, thoug= h it > might be a bit confusing as it's also the name of a function.=20 > > 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.=20 > > another possibility would be kv.el, for key-value - e.g. you sometimes he= ar > them referred to as key-value stores. Then kv-map, kv-keys, kv-values, et= c. > Or keyvalue.el, then keyvalue-map, keyvalue-keys, etc. I thought about that, but assoc.el and kv.el already exist. Nico =2D-=20 Nicolas Petton http://nicolas-petton.fr --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJU9rmWAAoJECM1h6R8IHkQCXoH/3cQnelKRiVxQMGxAo01H75d gi4Fos/vx2YWkcsoXdJvqhxHe8OsDskTGYAVRCBr+rP1VmErOOKqc0GRnnuLFkrg 04numYMrRwt1erp2sNIXnzcZsV2BAJZKLMLFIOXIeWqPVhKZ2trSbIOT+O6CI7o6 ld1yh29Hb/cTCiX8VbI+vapuLelspUuqNzyGvqcC124X9lLOo9KmKJG7ZYuq/Bul oy2iWEMGGMPw0ZbW3hXp+dTQwxY5GKLv5unnqLiQzS/Db/dpxJ1pS17xWV0WIF2J CG+lOZUFFQBeDK/6sCcrt0Rgz7ZQ67+I7ZTpyRduPDA7gbxaTfn9+JOmMWqunkY= =8zqs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--