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Re:Python dicts are now ordered by zeroimpl on Friday February 07, 2020 @09:19PM (#22273333)
The PHP documentation refers to them as "associative arrays", which is technically correct, but I agree I'm not sure how they could have conflated these concepts so badly.
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Re:Python dicts are now ordered by tyingq on Saturday February 08, 2020 @01:12PM (#22277311)
I believe the "associative array" terminology came from Perl. Though Perl's associative arrays don't have any guaranteed order. And Perl also has normal arrays.
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