[hash-map]->[hash-table]

Question

We have both hash-map and hash-table in the system. I have been trying to keep from having language-specific constructs in the tags.

Not sure how this one slipped through... again.

I propose creating a synonym from hash-map to hash-table. This is better than burnination because new questions cannot recreate the tag.

Similarly, dictionary -> hash-table

• Toby Speight: How is this status-completed? Still two different tags, no synonym. I've just updated the hash-map tag wiki (since this one has the most questions belonging to it) so that this merge can be done.
• RubberDuck: [dictionary] still exists too.

Answer 1

I say do it. Wikipedia considers them the same thing and as far as I know, they are.

However, there might be a bit of confusion for any Java developers and that might be a drawback. Apparently both exists as separate entities, so we'll need to be prepared to explain that tags such as these are not language specific.

• Marc-Andre: A good tag wiki should solve the Java particularity!
• maaartinus: Java Hashtable is an old crap, it doesn't really count. AFAIK there's no reason to use it, ever (its synchronization is rarely useful and if so, then there's Collections.synchronizedMap). I guess, there are many people not knowing that it exists (and that's a good thing).

Answer 2

This needs moderator intervention

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This is because hash-set -> hash-table exists.
And since map -> hash-map exists, we can't synonym hash-map -> hash-table/dictionary either.

• Malachi: and ..... Done!

Answer 3

Yes, let's merge these - probably into hash-map, as that's the one with most questions (by only a small margin).

I've copied the useful stuff from hash-table into it in readiness for the merge.

Definitely yes to the synonym once it's done.

(I don't understand why this question is status-completed; did it somehow get discompleted in the intervening years?)