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From:
Thomas Wittek
Date:
June 1, 2007 09:06
Subject:
Re: propose renaming Hash to Dict
Message ID:
20070601160603.18888.qmail@lists.develooper.com
Daniel Hulme:
>> Larry Wall:
>>> I name things in English.  Hash is just something that is disordered
> 
>> I'm not a native english speaker, but I've never heard or read the word
>> "hash" outside CS.
> 
> you've never eaten "corned beef hash".

To conclude, as hash definitely tastes better than a dictionary, we
should stick to that name. ;)

At least nobody can say that Perl is bad taste!

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Thomas Wittek
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