On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 8:58 PM Michael Neumann <michaelne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> IMHO, filter is a bad naming for what it does when coupled with booleans. > If the filter condition would return either :keep or :pass, it would be > obvious. > Regardless of your opinion on the name for this concept (I have no strong feeling either way), the ship has sailed for most languages. RosettaCode's page for this is called…Filter: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Filter There are various names for this: - remove-if-not (Common Lisp) - filter (Clojure) - seq-filter (Elisp) - lists:filter (Erlang) - List.filter (F#) - Array.prototype.filter (JS) - select (jq) - filter (Kotlin) - grep (Perl) - findall (Prolog) - filter (Python, but list comprehensions are more idiomatic) - select (Ruby) - filter or retain (Rust) The most *common* name that I saw in the entries was filter or some variation. -a -- Austin Ziegler • halosta...@gmail.com • aus...@halostatue.ca http://www.halostatue.ca/ • http://twitter.com/halostatue -- 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 elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAJ4ekQsTxs-4ZkX%3D0CJ0%2B2UnNzCRNcNoypL2WYP2ySDLnf5-Ow%40mail.gmail.com.
