On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Dean Landolt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Michael Haufe > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:15 PM, David Herman <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> > Calling it "length" would be a mistake. The word "length" means the >> measurement of a sequence: >> >> >> Of course, the word "magnitude" could consistently apply to arrays, sets, >> numbers, maps, and so on. No one would want to write it though... >> > > Actually no: we already have magnitude in the form of valueOf. This would > be more akin to cardinality, but again, who wants to type that :) > Meh, I should have hit wikipedia first. Looks like magnitude and cardinality are both pretty much absolute value. But yeah, both are too long. The word `norm` is nice and short, but not very descriptive. Ah well, my arm's getting tired from painting this shed :) (But what I'd love to hear what people think about my suggestion of skipping holes and even of doing real unicode char length)
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