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Re:TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language by jlgreco on Monday February 25, 2013 @03:51AM (#5277971)
How could:

  HashMap = HashTable = Map = Table = Dictionary = Hash
possibly not qualify as "obviously bad"? The only reason you've offered up is because it is easy...
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Re:TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language by DanWaterworth on Monday February 25, 2013 @04:19AM (#5278023)
I think this is fine. The obviously bad part is being able to remove/change constants, especially as these changes are global.
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Re:TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language by agscala on Monday February 25, 2013 @03:06PM (#5281404)
The obviously bad part is that you pollute the global namespace for no reason other than laziness. When someone comes across code that uses a "Table" object interchangeably with "Dictionary" and "Hash", then he's going to have to look through the source code to find this bizarre line only to find out that you renamed a built-in container for no good reason.
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Re:TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language by DanWaterworth on Monday February 25, 2013 @03:57PM (#5281741)
Yes, I suppose that's also true.
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