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From:
Mark J. Reed
Date:
June 1, 2007 03:52
Subject:
Re: propose renaming Hash to Dict
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f60fe000706010352r1e4445c1ua7a1e6e652dcda87@mail.gmail.com
On 6/1/07, Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> wrote:
> Nope.  Hash is mostly about meaning, and very little about implementation.
> Please don't assume that I name things according to Standard Names in
> Computer Science.  I name things in English.

Then why did we need a separate "use English" pragma? :)

Are you the one who originally came up with "hash" for %vars?  IIRC,
they were officially called just "associative arrays" through Perl4,
but "hash" was a well-understood community nickname for them for some
time before you canonized it with ref($var) eq 'HASH' in Perl5...

-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@mail.com>
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