[Factor-talk] Mnemonic for cleave/spread/etc?

2009-03-31 Thread William Tanksley
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

Re: [Factor-talk] Mnemonic for cleave/spread/etc?

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Double
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Adam hiat...@gmail.com wrote: Slava's talk graphics help: Also this is useful: http://elasticdog.com/2008/12/beginning-factor-shufflers-and-combinators/ Chris. -- http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz

Re: [Factor-talk] Mnemonic for cleave/spread/etc?

2009-03-31 Thread Adam
Chris, Which way do you prefer to think about it: values to quotations or quotations to values? I tend to thing about where the data is going and prefer the former. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Chris Double chris.dou...@double.co.nzwrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Adam