On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 15:06:55 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I'm looking for ideas on how to label the ranges returned from
take and drop. Some examples of what I think are appropriate
categories for other types of ranges:
Generative - iota, recurrence, sequence
Compositional - chain, roundRobin, transposed
Iterative - retro, stride, lockstep
XXX - take, drop
What to put into the XXX? I first thought of "Greedy", but that
has an association with "greedy algorithms" that I don't really
like. That led to "Selfish", but it's admittedly not that
appropriate. Beyond that, I'm stuck. Any and all ideas
appreciated.
If it were just take, then maybe "bounding" would work, and I
guess that _technically_ that works with drop as well, but it
seems kind of off to talk about bounding when the bounds are
everything _but_ a small number of elements.
- Jonathan M Davis
