what do most languages call a name-value pairing?

[Bush is a Fascist]

Hi all,

What do most languages call a name-value pairing?

Or perhaps my question should be, why not just call it
a name-value pairing? Too many syllables?

Did Knuth invent a handy term for such a thing?

Thanks.
333

 

[Daniel Dyer]

Hi all,

What do most languages call a name-value pairing?

Or perhaps my question should be, why not just call it
a name-value pairing? Too many syllables?

Did Knuth invent a handy term for such a thing?

Thanks.
333

A tuple, or 2-tuple in this case, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple)?

Dan.

 

[Roedy Green]

A tuple, or 2-tuple in this case, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple)?

that just means an n-tuple, fitting pairs or triples of anything. It
is correct, but does not imply name and value as he requested. )


How about:

named values

keyword parameters as opposed to positional parameters (JCL
terminology)

properties (CSS terminology)

keyword=value

cavies (gnuage whimsy)

 

[John Dunlop]

What do most languages call a name-value pairing?

In your English you call it a 'name-value pairing', if that
helps.

 

[NC]

What do most languages call a name-value pairing?

A symbol table?

Or perhaps my question should be, why not just call it
a name-value pairing? Too many syllables?

Well, some names (functions, for example) don't have corresponding
values; they correspond to code snippets...

Cheers,
NC

 

[George Cherry]

Hi all,

What do most languages call a name-value pairing?

Or perhaps my question should be, why not just call it
a name-value pairing? Too many syllables?

Mapping.
Map.
Relation.
Function.
Table.
Dictionary.
???????????

 

[Jim Gibson]

A symbol table?

Associative array?

 

[Roedy Green]

Mapping.
Map.
Relation.
Function.
Table.
Dictionary.

the Forth term is "vocabulary"

It depend on what the values are. Dictionary implies a definition.
Map implies a correspondence between two sets.
Function implies something that is computed.

What do the SQL people call them?

 

[Richard Bos]

What do most languages call a name-value pairing?

A troll.

Richard

 

[Thomas G. Marshall]

<PLONK>

 

[Bush is a Fascist]

Mapping.

Map.
Relation.
Function.
Table.
Dictionary.

Oh jeez, now I see why I should have *never* sold my
discrete math book back to the college.

Hmm...anybody know of a discrete math cheet sheet
anywhere on the Web?

 

[Virgil Green]

Hi all,

What do most languages call a name-value pairing?

Or perhaps my question should be, why not just call it
a name-value pairing? Too many syllables?

Did Knuth invent a handy term for such a thing?

Thanks.
333

I would suggest ... "map"

 

[Chung Leong]

I believe it's called a pong lo'laHghach chang'eng in Klingon.

 

[Joe Smith]

the Forth term is "vocabulary"

It depend on what the values are. Dictionary implies a definition.

They're called dictionaries in PostScript.
The value is defined.
-Joe

 

[John Currier]

What do most languages call a name-value pairing?

Or perhaps my question should be, why not just call it
a name-value pairing? Too many syllables?

If I remember correctly in Smalltalk it's called a Pair.

John
http://schemaspy.sourceforge.net

 

[Jeff Schwab]

If I remember correctly in Smalltalk it's called a Pair.

The std:air ("standard pair") template is a common way to represent
this concept in C++, too.

 

[Casey Hawthorne]

Are these synonymous:
- name-value pairing
- associative array
- hash
- dictionary

 

[Thomas G. Marshall]

Casey Hawthorne coughed up:

Are these synonymous:
- name-value pairing
- associative array
- hash
- dictionary

Not quite. A hash is a technique to facilitate the indexing into a
name-value pairing, associative array, or a dictionary.