Re: Meaning of abbreviated terms

2018-05-12 Thread Ross Wilson
The "plist" abbreviation goes back to at least 1958 as it was used in the Lisp implementation [0].  And it may even predate Lisp.  I'm very sure that what actually went into a plist has often changed over the years, but the name persists. Lisp also used "association lists" [1] which were a key

Re: Meaning of abbreviated terms

2018-05-11 Thread Bob Martin
in 793617 20180511 072806 Steven D'Aprano wrote: >On Fri, 11 May 2018 07:20:36 +, Bob Martin wrote: > >> in 793605 20180511 044309 T Berger wrote: >>>On Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 6:45:46 PM UTC-4, MRAB wrote: On 2018-05-05 17:57, T Berger wrote: > What does the "p" in "plist" stand

Re: Meaning of abbreviated terms

2018-05-11 Thread Gregory Ewing
Steven D'Aprano wrote: But that's not where plists came from, was it? As I understand it, the plist data format was invented by Apple, and they called it a property list. The term "property list" can also refer to a data structure in Lisp: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node10

Re: Meaning of abbreviated terms

2018-05-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 11 May 2018 07:20:36 +, Bob Martin wrote: > in 793605 20180511 044309 T Berger wrote: >>On Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 6:45:46 PM UTC-4, MRAB wrote: >>> On 2018-05-05 17:57, T Berger wrote: >>> > What does the "p" in "plist" stand for? Is there a python glossary >>> > that spells out the

Re: Meaning of abbreviated terms

2018-05-10 Thread Bob Martin
in 793605 20180511 044309 T Berger wrote: >On Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 6:45:46 PM UTC-4, MRAB wrote: >> On 2018-05-05 17:57, T Berger wrote: >> > What does the "p" in "plist" stand for? >> > Is there a python glossary that spells out the meanings of abbreviated >> > terms? >> > >> "plist" is "pro

Re: Meaning of abbreviated terms

2018-05-10 Thread T Berger
On Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 6:45:46 PM UTC-4, MRAB wrote: > On 2018-05-05 17:57, T Berger wrote: > > What does the "p" in "plist" stand for? > > Is there a python glossary that spells out the meanings of abbreviated > > terms? > > > "plist" is "property list". It's listed in the Python documentat

Re: Meaning of abbreviated terms

2018-05-05 Thread MRAB
On 2018-05-05 17:57, T Berger wrote: What does the "p" in "plist" stand for? Is there a python glossary that spells out the meanings of abbreviated terms? "plist" is "property list". It's listed in the Python documentation. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Meaning of abbreviated terms

2018-05-05 Thread T Berger
What does the "p" in "plist" stand for? Is there a python glossary that spells out the meanings of abbreviated terms? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list