[Gllug] What is a hash?

[Nix]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Gordon Joly gibbered:
>>
>>Exactly so. A silly name, they should have been called `maps', IMHO,
>>because that's what they *do*.
> 
> Indeedy. In Lisp there is "mapcar".

And `map' and `mapc' and `maplist' for mapping over different kinds of
things. Hell, there's `map' in perl, too, but the data structure they
call a `hash' is a mapping from keys to values. `Map' is a much better
name than `hash', which, after all, is just an implementation technique
for a map.

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