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jglascoe@jay.giss.nasa.gov writes: > On Wed, 4 Nov 1998 Chris.Bitmead@misys.com.au wrote: > > > The bottom line is - I think a hash table should be called hash-table. I > > think > > the word "dictionary" should be reserved for some future OO class library, > > which will probably use hash-table as an implementation. > > Okay, I'm still open minded. If everyone wants "hash-table", then I'll go > with "hash-table". But I still plan on consulting some other languages to > see (a) what they call their hash tables, and (b) whether any of them > actually have a data structure named "dictionary" that orders its entries. > Perl: hash Tcl: array (not a first-class data structure, but close enough) Common Lisp: hash-table MIT Scheme: hash-table > could we implement the object system in C so that it isn't slow? that > would be a good thing. I'll take a wild guess that STk has a C > implemented object system (but I still haven't looked at it... someday, > someday...) > I remember a fair number of mentions that someone was porting the STk object system to Guile, maybe it will even happen some day. - Maciej