Re: nomenclature

[Phil Lawrence <prlawrence@Lehigh.EDU>]

Gay, Jerry wrote:

> well, since this reminds me of everybody's favorite bastardized data
> structure, the pseudohash, perhaps that's good for a name. the pseudohash
> has finally been deprecated in perl (after loads of moaning and groaning,)
> and f_depseudohashify will probably remind you to deprecate your function as
> soon as possible, as well.

Oh!  I forgot about pseudohashes.  Probably because I never used them... 
 That's a good idea, because there's precedent for the name.  Who named 
Perl's pseudohash functionality?  I'd like to ask them if they can 
describe the naming choice, and any relevant etymology/lore.

Phil
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