Slava's talk graphics help:

http://content.screencast.com/users/hiatoms/folders/Default/media/efc4c78d-f263-45e2-8648-9c37420e4f03/cleave-spread-apply.PNG

One-to-many, many-to-many, many-to-one.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:42 PM, William Tanksley <[email protected]>wrote:

> How do you people remember cleave versus spread? They seem to me to be
> named the opposite of what I expect. I'd expect "cleave" to cut the
> stack into multiple parts and run a function on each part, while
> "spread" would take the same data and apply it to multiple parts
> (spreading it thinly, as it were).
>
> That's clearly the wrong thing to think, though, since it's exactly
> wrong.
>
> So what's the right way to think?
>
> -Wm
>
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