[Python-Dev] PEP 372 -- Adding an ordered directory to collections ready for pronouncement

[Lie Ryan]

Steve Holden wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>>>> Perhaps the terminology should be
>>>>
>>>>   ordereddict -- what we have here
>>>>
>>>>   sorteddict -- hypothetical future type that keeps
>>>>                 itself sorted in key order
>> +1
>>
>>
>>> FIFOdict ?  Yeah, that blows the capitalization scheme, way, way out.
>> Issues:
>> * The popitem() method is LIFO.
>> * In a non-popping context, there is no OUT.  It just stores.
>> * FIFO is more suggestive of queue behavior which does not apply here.
>> * Stores to existing keys don't go at the end; they leave the order
>> unchanged.
>>
>> FWIW, PEP 372 has links to seven other independent implementations and
>> they all have names that are some variant spelling OrderedDict except
>> for one which goes by the mysterious name of StableDict.
>>
>> Am still +1 on painting the class green with pink polka dots, but I'm
>> starting to appreciate why others are insisting on pink with green polka
>> dots ;-)
>>
> historydict?

agedict?