On 11 April 2012 08:49, Hans Hübner <hans.hueb...@gmail.com> wrote: > There has been no progress in the discussion because there has been no > clear winner with respect to how the partial application macros should > be named. While I understand the objections against using the term > "curry" to name partial application, the naming is still a question of > style. > > Unfortunately, the wrong usage of the term "curry" has been going on > in the Common Lisp world for years now, and many people have moved > over to using Alexandria's CURRY and RCURRY instead of the versions in > their private library. At this point, it would be really upsetting to > remove those names from Alexandria again, however "wrong" they may be. > > So, if anything, there should be additional names that are more > correct. Given the discussion from 2009, I'd say we need CURRY == > PAPPLY == PARTIALLY-APPLY and RCURRY == RPAPPLY == > REVERSE-PARTIALLY-APPLY. If the matter is important to you, please > submit a patch.
Hans pretty much nails it. I'm fine adding PARTIAL-APPLY and REVERSE-PARTIAL-APPLY as synomyms, but not so wild about PAPPLY and RPAPPLY. Cheers, -- Nikodemus _______________________________________________ alexandria-devel mailing list alexandria-devel@common-lisp.net http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-devel
