[Swift-devel] dataset terminology

[Mihael Hategan]

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 13:18 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> The HPDC paper in SVN contains (in the language section, which I am 
> porting to the user guide):
> 
> >  We often refer to instances of composites of
> >  mapped types as \emph{datasets}.
> 
> Is this intended to mean that:
> 
>   file f <"mydata.dat">;
> 
> is not a dataset?

No. green is not grass.

And as far as I can tell, we don't use "dataset" much in connection to
single files. But we could as long as we're clear about it. However, for
the purpose of the paper, the term "dataset" wasn't explained, which I
thought it should.

> 
> In the implementation, pretty much everything is a dataset, in the sense 
> that it is represented by an instance of the DSHandle class. This includes 
> primitive in-memory values such as integers and strings.
>