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Subject: Re: About debugging HashTables implementation .

Author: Pat King

Date: 11:25:25 04/14/02

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On April 13, 2002 at 00:36:07, Will Singleton wrote:

[99% snipped because I'm tired of seeing "Pat King said" seven replies
after my replies have been snipped out]
>btw, thanks for addressing this.  I think that people toss around chess terms
>that are not well-defined, with resulting confusion.  I still think that the
>collision term is best defined by Beal, as I have indicated.  Two hashkeys
>competing for the same table slot, or index, colliding.  As you define it, is
>really a bug, and should not occur; hence the term is not meaningful.
>
>Will

Why argue about the meaning of a word, as long as that word is defined within a
given thread?  Is not a rose as sweet, etc, etc?

I don't think any of us disagree about what constitutes a bug in this thread,
just what to call it!

Pat



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