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shadowfiend
on Feb 1, 2014
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Big changes to Erlang
Well, hashes in particular implies a very specific kind of map/table (one that uses hashing). I think the most common non-implementation-dependent names are maps, dict(ionarie)s, tables, and associative arrays.
logicallee
on Feb 1, 2014
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the reason it's in OP's list is that that's just what Perl calls associative arrays. (
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Perl_Programming/Hash_Variables
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Hence it's literally the exact same thing as a dictionary, but is named a hash in Perl.
judk
on Feb 2, 2014
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Hah, in the second paragraph the author forgot, called it "associative array", and then remembered "hash" for the latter half of the sentence.
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