Re: terminology wa Re: XML basics Re: LC model draft draft-ietf-forces-model-07.txt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel M. Halpern" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: terminology wa Re: XML basics Re: LC model draft
draft-ietf-forces-model-07.txt


> My inclination is a hybrid of your suggestions.
> We should say that LFB Arrays are used to represent tabular data
> structures, including things that are frequently called arrays or tables.
> Whenever we refer to the LFB structure in the abstract, we should
> refer to it as an array.
> And we should try to use array as much as possible the rest of the time.
>

Yes, sounds good to me

Tom Petch

> Yours,
> Joel
>
> At 10:04 AM 11/8/2006, tom.petch wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Joel M. Halpern" <[email protected]>
> >To: <[email protected]>
> >Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 6:24 PM
> >Subject: Re: terminology wa Re: XML basics Re: LC model draft
> >draft-ietf-forces-model-07.txt
> >
> >
> > > We should certainly be consistent about what we call the things.
> > > Since I find the term subscript very useful, I tend to think of arrays.
> > > Part of the reason that I like subscript is that it is clearly
> > > distinct from the content key.  In contrast, the table index is not
> > > so clearly different.
> >
> >Ok so how about replacing all uses of table with array? a quick
> >browse of -model
> >shows array in use about 200 times and table 45 including such phrases as
> >'array index of a table' :-)
> >
> >Trouble is,.many uses of table are as part of a well known phrase
> >such as 'dscp
> >mapping table'  'forwarding table'  ' frequency table' so I suspect that
won't
> >work.  Perhaps the best thing would be to state that no semantic difference
is
> >meant between the use of table (widely used in s3) and array (widely
> >used in s4)
> >
> >Tom Petch
> >
> > >
> > > Yours,
> > > Joel
> > >
> > > At 11:30 AM 11/6/2006, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> > > > > My 'arrays' are usually 'tables' with rows and columns which
> > > > works at least when
> > > > > they are 2-D;
> > > >
> > > >Table is a better name.