I'm prepping for my coding interviews using LeetCode and JavaScript. In video solutions people are referring to using the JavaScript object {} as using a Hashmap or Hashtable. Would it be wrong if I called it an object during the interview?
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1That's what most people here call it. It's implemented as a hash table, but no one calls it that. – Barmar Mar 30 '22 at 21:36
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1I would either call it object or [object literal](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Grammar_and_types#object_literals), depending on the context. – jabaa Mar 30 '22 at 21:37
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You may call it dictionary, like [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3559070/are-there-dictionaries-in-javascript-like-python) – n-- Mar 30 '22 at 21:39
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How about casually referring to a JS `Object` instance as _"Bag of key value pairs"_? ... btw `{}` in its written form is called an object literal, and it does _materialize_ as an empty object (thus it features not a single own property). – Peter Seliger Mar 30 '22 at 22:42
