TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language

Re:TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language by aamar on Sunday February 24, 2013 @02:14AM (#5273229)

Sadly "map" is also the name of the critical "map" function which operates on lists. Maybe with an indefinite article ("a map") it's clear enough.

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Re:TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language by dkersten on Sunday February 24, 2013 @07:40AM (#5273992)

Sure, so go the Lua route: table. Or the python route: dictionary. If neither of those do it for you, how about "mapping"?

Hash (and hash map, hash table etc) leak too much implementation detail. What if you want a tree-based mapping instead? I like how in C++ it's map (for ordered, rb-tree based maps) and unordered_map (for unordered, hash table based maps).

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Re:TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language by aamar on Monday February 25, 2013 @10:59PM (#5283861)

I'm going to try out "mapping" -- good suggestion.

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