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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