Michael McLay <mclay@nist.gov>: > Unfortunately the PEP has rejected all varations of the term index: > > All of the names involving 'index' clashed with usage in database > languages where indexing implies a sorting operation rather than > linear sequencing. I think that comment is badly worded. Creating a database index may involve sorting at some point, but that's irrelevant. It's called "indexing" by analogy with indexing a book -- i.e. creating a data structure allowing fast access to a data item given a key. I think this usage of the term is much more widely understood than just in the database field, or even the whole computer field. > I searched the Python document, using Thomas Heller's nifty "Index for > Python manuals". Why do you think that document has the word "Index" in its title... :-) Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+
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