"Tally" is not used often, but it does precisely and concisely describe the function. For more reference, those 4 vertical lines with a slash across them to represent 5 are known as "tally marks" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_marks). Also, if this were in our standard library, I would always think of Harry Belafonte's _Day-O_ song and smile when I use it ("come mister tally man, tally me banana") (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tou8-Cz8is)
-Greg Vaughn > On Oct 4, 2019, at 7:55 PM, José Valim <[email protected]> > wrote: > > So I am not a native speaker, but “tally” sounds very foreign to me. Is it > used frequently? I am afraid an uncommon name won’t help with > readability/discovery. Is there a reason why it is not called count_by? It > seems it was first proposed as such to Ruby. Thank you for the proposal! > -- > > > José Valim > www.plataformatec.com.br > Skype: jv.ptec > Founder and Director of R&D > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4KqUJKyuD0CSe5gTHL761SR6CncKDD1ryTsHTuRWXFN8g%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/A87FBBAC-8F1E-450D-B844-A02F2F7A71B6%40gmail.com.
