On Sun, 2015-11-01 at 08:14 +0100, Pascal Schumacher wrote: > Hi everybody, > > what about adding the more common names of map/reduce/filter for the > Ruby inspired collect/inject/grep methods?
Whilst it maybe that James and Bob picked the names from Ruby, Ruby got (at least most of) them from Smalltalk. So perhaps in the above s/Ruby/Smalltalk/. > Imho these names are more descriptive and would make it easier for > beginners. > > What do you think? This argument has been had many times before in the last 12 years. Invariable there are those who think yes and those who oppose. To date the opposers have won out, usually on the grounds of "why change?" and "breaks backward compatibility". You will note that GPars supports both names :-) -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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