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Subject: Re: Hash table question

Author: TEERAPONG TOVIRAT

Date: 17:03:23 07/26/99

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On July 24, 1999 at 13:16:17, Pete Galati wrote:

>On July 24, 1999 at 03:31:50, TEERAPONG TOVIRAT wrote:
>
>>I've studied one source code about hashtable.The author assigns keep method
>>varialbles as new,old,deep,big1,bigall. I think  they are  the methods to put
>>all
>>informations into the table in case of collision. Their names are arbitrary but
>>I hope
>>someone can guess the idea behind them. Please,let me know.
>>Thanks for any help.
>>Teerapong
>
>I don't see that as so much a question about hashtables but a question about
>programming, I don't say that to be critical of your question. What you name a
>variable is not important to the program. It would have funtioned exactly the
>same if the programmer had decided to call "bigall", "smallno" instead. The
>names for those variables obviouslly had some sort of organazation importance,
>but you'd really have to ask the programmer.
>
>Pete

I know their names are not important .What I want to know is idea behind each
variables(methods)  or the differences between them.
Teerapong



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