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Re:TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language by SoftwareMaven on Sunday February 24, 2013 @01:37AM (#5273154)
A dictionary maps words to their definitions. The words are the keys, the definitions are the values. Seems reasonable to me. Though as another predominantly pythoner, I do prefer map as well.
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Re:TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language by Myrmornis on Sunday February 24, 2013 @02:07AM (#5273214)
In a dictionary the value (meaning) is often (partially) implied by the key (word), by etymology etc. In the data structure there need be no relationship between the key and value other than the fact that they are a key-value pair in this instance. It introduces messy cultural concepts into what should be a clean, abstract concept.
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