Re: Heterogenous lists [ was Re: [boost] BGL: property "num" members]

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-21 23:38:40

Despite the fact that I mentioned "alist", I have the same philosophy
(though I wasn't privileged to have been personally pummeled by Stepanov)
;-)

-Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Siek" <jsiek_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: Heterogenous lists [ was Re: [boost] BGL: property "num"
members]

>
> I'd be happy with either assoc_list or alist, though I still prefer
> associative_list. In general I believe that long, descriptive names for
> classes and functions are good (Alex Stepanov beat this into my head while
> I was working at SGI). I think the amount of information conveyed to the
> reader of the code is more important than these other issues.
>
> Just my $0.02,
> Jeremy
>
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, David Abrahams wrote:
> > > doesn't have the logarithmic-time lookup of multimap. I suppose I
could go
> > > with
> > > assoc_list, but that's unpronounceable. Any other ideas?
> >
> > elisp (regular lisp, too?) has "alists" which are exactly what you're
> > building.
>
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