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:The code should work with any text list. I don't mind if the specific list isn't critical to the task. The advantage of the one I am proposing is that it includes names (i.e. Nigel and Paddy). The Perl entry has a wildcard feature that could be foreseeing 7733428483 8398. You may want a version which allows numbers. 2748424767 -> "Briticisms", "criticisms".--[[User:Nigel Galloway|Nigel Galloway]] ([[User talk:Nigel Galloway|talk]]) 15:29, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
== What does "mapping" mean here? ==
(Obviously we are not talking about geography.)
The usual use of the word "mapping" in the context of programs is a reference to the process of using what a routine named "map" such as has been implemented in a variety of lisps (or javascript or perl or ruby or numerous other languages). In other words, it's talking about transforming some argument to some result. In other words, it's basically just a name for a function.
But I am having trouble making sense of that here, because there is not "textonym function" which is different from the identify function. We have words, we are looking for words that contain textonyms, but those words are not the result of some function, unless that function is a function which does absolutely nothing.
So... unless there is some useful meaning being conveyed here (and there might be? =), the word "mapping" is just gibberish. If it's meaningless, could we just remove it from the task description? Alternatively, if it's meaningful, I would benefit from knowing its definition. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 01:37, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
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