On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Christoph Zwerschke wrote: > 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. > > Speaking about "ordered" and "sorted" in the context of collections is > not a new terminology I am introducing, but seems to be pretty common in > computer science
This is quite true. I haven't seen any evidence for 'rife' misunderstanding of these terms. That said ... > Perhaps Pythonists are not used to that terminology, since they use the > term "list" for an "ordered collection". An ordered dictionary is a > dictionary whose keys are a (unique) list. Sometimes it is also called a > "sequence" Maybe we should call it a 'sequenced dictionary' to fit better with pythonic terminology? tom -- YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO ARRIVE MAKE ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS. -- Robin May -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
