Re: Scheme style auto-resizing hashtable (fwd)

[Jay Glascoe <jglascoe@jay.giss.nasa.gov>]

On Wed, 4 Nov 1998 Chris.Bitmead@misys.com.au wrote:

> The bottom line is - I think a hash table should be called hash-table. I
> think
> the word "dictionary" should be reserved for some future OO class library,
> which will probably use hash-table as an implementation.

Okay, I'm still open minded.  If everyone wants "hash-table", then I'll go
with "hash-table".  But I still plan on consulting some other languages to
see (a) what they call their hash tables, and (b) whether any of them
actually have a data structure named "dictionary" that orders its entries. 

> All IMHO of course :-) Let's build a proper object system!!

could we implement the object system in C so that it isn't slow?  that
would be a good thing.  I'll take a wild guess that STk has a C
implemented object system (but I still haven't looked at it... someday,
someday...)


	Jay Glascoe
	jglascoe@jay.giss.nasa.gov