Hi William,

Joy has a 'cleave' combinator which is like Factor's 'bi'. 'spread'
was a name that Ed came up with. In the end, I think either way the
names are kind of arbitrary; if you write code in Factor every day
they become second nature.

Slava

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:42 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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