Alex Martelli wrote: > However, since Christoph himself just misclassified C++'s std::map as > "ordered" (it would be "sorted" in this new terminology he's now > introducing), it seems obvious that the terminological confusion is > rife. Many requests and offers in the past for "ordered dictionaries" > (e.g. on this group) were also "sorted", NOT "ordered", in this new > terminology. > > Maybe it would therefore be clearer to have the name of the new > container reflect this, with a specific mention of *insertion* order... > rather than just call it "ordered" and risk probable confusion. Um,
what would be the definition of "sorted" and "ordered", before we can go on ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
