Re: [Factor-talk] Assoc protocol

[Slava P. <sl...@fa...>]

On 12-Apr-07, at 2:45 PM, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:

> Hi Factor people,
>
> As some of you already know, I'm working on a protocol for associative
> arrays (assocs) like hashtables, alists and various trees. The code is
> mostly done, except for some persistent bugs.

I think we sorted those bugs out on IRC.

> Hopefully, it'll be
> included in .89.

Before you said you didn't want it in 0.89; have you changed your mind?

> I think it might be better to rename the generic hash and set-hash to
> at and set-at.

What about 'at' and 'put'?

> remove-hash could be called remove-at

delete-at, to be consistent with delete-nth in sequences.

> My other idea is to replace assoc with dict. Though it overlaps with
> some existing Factor usage (the dictionary is where words are stored),

I'm not against referring to these objects as dictionaries, as long  
as we update the documentation to not use 'dictionary' in the Forth  
sense.

Slava