On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Stuart Sierra <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mar 16, 8:14 am, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry to jump in late, but one problem with seek is that it is a >> homophone of seq. >> >> Did anyone consider ffilter or find-first? > > I thought "find-first" was too long, since it's almost as long as > (first (filter ...) > > "ffilter" looks funny, especially in a proportional font. > > Others I considered: find1, filter1, select1, pick, detect, spot, > hit, ...
While considering suffixed names, what about firstp as inspired by condp? I personally like how the "first" part makes it clear that we are returning a single thing, rather than a collection or seq, and that it is the one closest to the head - the one we are going to, well, find first. That said, as you might imagine, I rather like find-first myself. I don't think it is too much to type. I may be biased here, considering my non-american keyboard layout, but saving a parenthesis for filter is more of a win than a few alphabetic characters. To conclude, I would prefer find-first as I believe the clarity is worth the extra characters. > > "pick" might be good. > > -Stuart Sierra > > > -- Venlig hilsen / Kind regards, Christian Vest Hansen. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
