2009/6/4 szergling <senatorzergl...@gmail.com>: > Hi Alexandrians, > > I believe curry and rcurry are the wrong names for the current > functions in Alexandria. See the following for example, > > http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-26/mail-archive/msg00000.html > http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-26/mail-archive/msg00015.html > > What about papply or partial-apply? Or maybe p-apply? This way, The > reversed version might be called rp-apply. Otherwise > reverse-partial-apply? > > I am aware that this is a common usage/mistake in CL, but Alexandria > doesn't have to perpetuate this error. An unfortunate downside is > breaking backwards compatibility. I'm not sure what Alexandria's > policy is regarding this... > > I'm happy to send patches if this renaming is agreed upon.
I'm not sure. I'm not totally opposed, but I'm not convinced either: even if it wrong, the names are "culturally correct", if you will. Names partial-apply and partial-reverse-apply would be my preferred ones if we did the renaming. Cheers, -- Nikodemus _______________________________________________ alexandria-devel mailing list alexandria-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-devel
