From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nic Ferrier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: map.el and naming Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 09:38:53 +0000 Message-ID: <87oao9rtjm.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> References: <87lhji1aw8.fsf@petton.fr> <1425398299282-351216.post@n5.nabble.com> <87zj7tyzc9.fsf@petton.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425461977 30138 80.91.229.3 (4 Mar 2015 09:39:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:39:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "bburns.km" , Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: nicolas@petton.fr Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 04 10:39:26 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 1YT5m1-0006hp-3a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 10:39:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42883 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YT5m0-0004Vu-0L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 04:39:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43195) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YT5lh-0004Ul-Ec for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 04:39:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YT5le-0006lj-8C for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 04:39:05 -0500 Original-Received: from static.17.66.46.78.clients.your-server.de ([78.46.66.17]:52536 helo=po1.ferrier.me.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YT5le-0006lJ-2m for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 04:39:02 -0500 Original-Received: from nicferrier-dell-xps (140.35.155.90.in-addr.arpa [90.155.35.140]) by po1.ferrier.me.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id ABECAAC0ACE; Wed, 4 Mar 2015 11:04:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nicferrier-XPS13-9333 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nicferrier-dell-xps (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C3DD600BD; Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:38:54 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87zj7tyzc9.fsf@petton.fr> (nicolas@petton.fr's message of "Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:51:50 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 78.46.66.17 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:183631 Archived-At: nicolas@petton.fr writes: > 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. Why don't you send PRs to kv then? I'd be happy to put kv into elpa as well as marmalade. Nic