In Elm 0.18, primes are being removed as valid characters in a variable/function name. The reason being, which I whole heartedly agree with, that removing primes will incentivize people to write proper names, and also because the difference between model and model' isn't always easy to spot.
In the same spirit, I propose that we change the name of foldl to foldLeft, and the name of foldr to foldRight. The difference between foldl and foldr isn't to spot at a cursory glance. foldLeft is also more self-describing than foldl, it also matches what I say when I read foldl aloud while explaining code to others. FYI: Scala has also called their functions foldLeft and foldRight. I think this proposal would benefit both seasoned and new Elm developers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
