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The paper doesn't seem to explain why 'lish'. I originally thought 'list' + 'hash', but that doesn't seem to be consistent with their definition of the data model.



> The model that we propose instead is called the “lish”. (The name is a portmanteau of “list” and “hash table” since in its fully specified form it shares some characteristics of both; it is the list-like properties that we focus on in this paper


> > The model that we propose instead is called the “lish”. (The name is a portmanteau of “list” and “hash table” since in its fully specified form it shares some characteristics of both; it is the list-like properties that we focus on in this paper

Thanks! I skimmed the paper, and obviously I missed that. (I dunno why I didn't just search for 'hash'.)




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