Re: Nominalization
That's interesting. I haven't learned about reductions yet—I'll check it out. If you consider the following, (defn dot-product [v1 v2] (reduce + (map * v1 v2))) perhaps dot-product would be considered a noun, while since the reduce it is defined in terms of speaks of *how* instead of *what,* is better though of as a verb. I find the concept of the elimination of time interesting. The expression (reduce + (map * [1 2 3] [5 0 1])) brings to mind a tiny machine, while (dot-product [1 2 3] [5 0 1]) feels like a *thing*. But, they both are simply the thing: 8 and perhaps both could be evaluated at compile time, eliminating the time-based machine that mentally cranks away while reduce and map “run.” On Saturday, May 10, 2014 12:52:34 AM UTC-4, Gary Trakhman wrote: Never thought of it that way, I always verb the noun. Did you learn about reductions, yet? It's clear that the name corresponds to the intended output at least in that case. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Nominalization
I am new to functional programming and caught myself reading “reduce” as “the reduction of.” Do you experienced Clojure programmers find yourselves thinking in terms of nouns instead of verbs? (Non-temporal expressions as opposed to actions?) Some of the operations reinforce this way of thinking (“range” and “max”) while others don't (“map” and “take”) while some can easily be either (“count” and “mod”) and some that resist being either (“if” and “let”). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Nominalization
Never thought of it that way, I always verb the noun. Did you learn about reductions, yet? It's clear that the name corresponds to the intended output at least in that case. On Friday, May 9, 2014, Mike Fikes mikefi...@me.com wrote: I am new to functional programming and caught myself reading “reduce” as “the reduction of.” Do you experienced Clojure programmers find yourselves thinking in terms of nouns instead of verbs? (Non-temporal expressions as opposed to actions?) Some of the operations reinforce this way of thinking (“range” and “max”) while others don't (“map” and “take”) while some can easily be either (“count” and “mod”) and some that resist being either (“if” and “let”). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.comjavascript:; Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com javascript:; For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com javascript:;. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
