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Isn't the word he's looking for 'persistent' ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
by toolslive 14y ago
Isn't the word he's looking for 'persistent' ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
- nkurz 14y agoHe explains his word choice near the end of the article: (Another name for functional data structures are persistent. I've avoided this term not to confuse it with the notion of storage on persistent media like a physical disc.)
- alipang 14y agoYeah. The naming choice is a reference to Chris Okasaki's book Purely functional data structures.