Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] MList name (was: ExtLib v0.1o)

[Eric C. C. <ec...@cm...>]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:12:17AM +0900, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
> What about the name of "Vector". That's short, understandable, and
> people coming from the Java world will be more that happy to find a
> data structure with which they can do add/remove.

Vector has a strong connotation of constant-time indexing, like
arrays (esp. given the vectors in SML).

> If you don't like Vector, Jacques Garrigue came up with another idea when I
> was talking about it : "RefList" ( that has a lot of meaning for OCaml
> people, since everybody knows ' a ref )

I like this much better than M(.*)List, even though one might object that
it describes the implementation rather than the abstract interface.

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