I like ruby's "select" and "reject", for precisely the same reason.

martin

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Kasey Speakman <kjspeak...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I believe filter is a pretty standard name for this. Even Javascript has
> Array.filter
> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/filter>
> with the same semantics.
>
> In .NET Linq uses `.Where`, but I believe that is mainly to have
> similarity with SQL.
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 2:35:45 PM UTC-5, Duane Johnson wrote:
>>
>> I saw @_chunglou's tweet
>> <https://twitter.com/_chenglou/status/788165827560214528> yesterday and
>> wondered if this had been discussed before:
>>
>> "I can never, ever remember whether `filter` needs `true` or `false`.
>> `keep` would be a nicer name."
>>
>> I agree `keep` would remove the ambiguity. Thoughts?
>>
>> -- Duane
>>
>>
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