Re: Renaming map->dict, class->type?

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Still tempted for "dict"


From the point of view of someone who is a newcomer to programming, "dict"
is the only name that is descriptive (sort of, "dictionary" would be better
but it's too long?) and does not bring bizarre associations.

"map" especially is a misleading term because it is overloaded with
multiple meanings. One has to go quite far through a dictionary
(Merriam-Webster, for example) to get to:

noun...
verb...
intransitive verb...
2*: *to be assigned in a relation or connection

(I realize that "to map" and "mapping" are widely used in the field of
computer science and in programming.)

A dictionary, on the other hand, is exactly what we have here (it seems to
me), down to the current implementation.

Cheers,
Boris
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