Re: terminology

[Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen]

Am So., 11. Okt. 2020 um 16:14 Uhr schrieb Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>:
>
> Hi Marc,
>
> > I have attached an improved version of the HAMT module to this email.
>
> How about terminology: "delete" vs. "remove"?

> In this sense, 'hamt_delete' is triggering the wrong associations.
> How about renaming 'hamt_remove'?
>
> Deleting an entry from a hash table or HAMT does not always mean to
> delete the object that the entry references.
>
> The Java collections [1], C# collections [2], Python collections [3]
> all use the verb "remove".

I'm fine with this change and agree with your reasoning. I used the
hash module (see your comment below) as a guide for the interface,
that's why I called the procedure hamt_delete in the first place.

> Yes, we still have hash_delete (in module 'hash') and 'argz_delete' (in
> module 'argz'); these are very old modules.

Marc