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Would calling it a 'tree' be more fitting than 'rope'? The paper already used the term 'leaves'
by ibraheemdev 6y ago
Would calling it a 'tree' be more fitting than 'rope'? The paper already used the term 'leaves'
- sgtnoodle 6y agoThe word "tree" already has a very general and overloaded meaning within the context of data structures. Presumably, this "rope" implementation is using a tree structure internally, but that's true of many thousands of things; it's a basic foundation of data structures and computer science. I assume "rope" was chosen as a tongue in cheek alternative to "string".
- jeffbee 6y agoI always figured rope was just meant to imply that it was bigger than string.
- chrisseaton 6y ago'Ropes' are built using 'trees'. They're more specific than trees. Otherwise, why do we say 'trees' when we could use the more general term 'graphs' if that's your argument?