Re: taxonomy for data-structure modules?

On 5/26/07, Ken Williams <ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think that's part of it.  But another problem is that many people
> don't know the "official" names for the data structures they're
> thinking of, e.g. "trie" or "skiplist" or whatever, so they can't
> search very effectively for it.
>
> It does seem like a user-applied keyword tagging scheme on CPAN (e.g.
> search.cpan.org) would be very fruitful and would go a long way
> toward solving a lot of the organization-related problems people
> bring up on this list.
>
>   -Ken

Does perlmonks have a wiki with a data structures section?  Wikipedia
has loads of data structures documents on it -- for instance,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiplist has links to SkipDB and an implementation
in C#.  Creating a norm of linking data structure modules from the wikipedia
article on the structure in question would do the trick using existing
infrastructure,
as would other proposals that do not demand tiers of new services appear from
nowhere.