From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: map.el and naming Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 08:53:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lhji1aw8.fsf@petton.fr> <874monpju0.fsf@petton.fr> <552A1AF3.6080309@dancol.org> <871tjpzher.fsf@petton.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428843210 24063 80.91.229.3 (12 Apr 2015 12:53:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 12:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: John Mastro , Daniel Colascione , emacs-devel To: Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 12 14:53:17 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 1YhHO0-0000hT-4T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:53:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45212 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhHNz-0008RL-HS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 08:53:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57052) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhHNw-0008RA-2F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 08:53:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhHNs-0003V0-31 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 08:53:12 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:48606) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhHNr-0003Uo-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 08:53:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t3CCr3Zx031900; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 08:53:03 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 33E40660DC; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 08:53:03 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <871tjpzher.fsf@petton.fr> (Nicolas Petton's message of "Sun, 12 Apr 2015 13:59:24 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5274=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5274> : inlines <2686> : streams <1421227> : uri <1904860> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:185333 Archived-At: >>> "dict-" is short. "Dictionary" is another well-known name for a mapping >>> data structure. >> "dict-" is OK with me. > It would be fine (short and meaningful), but I don't really like how it > sounds. I know I'm being picky here... I also prefer "map-" in general, FWIW. > Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I'll think about this for a while. So it seems the alternative is between finding a replacement for the "map, the type" (where "dict" is the best candidate so far) and finding a replacement for "map, the operation" (not sure what the best candidates would be here, maybe "iterate", or "loop", or "visit"?). Stefan