On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:34:13PM -0400, Andrew Rodland wrote:
: On Monday 04 April 2005 06:34 pm, Juerd wrote:
: > Terrence Brannon skribis 2005-04-04 18:45 (+):
: > > So, to avoid confusion with the common understanding of flattening in
: > > Perl, perhaps it should be called spreading or di
Andrew Rodland skribis 2005-04-04 22:34 (-0400):
> > Likewise, "slurping" is probably best explained as collecting.
> I like this. I'd be tempted to suggest "scatter" / "gather", but that's
Gather is taken.
> probably a bit opaque to the average reader. How about describing them as
> "expand" /
On Monday 04 April 2005 06:34 pm, Juerd wrote:
> Terrence Brannon skribis 2005-04-04 18:45 (+):
> > So, to avoid confusion with the common understanding of flattening in
> > Perl, perhaps it should be called spreading or distributing.
>
> I agree.
>
> Likewise, "slurping" is probably best expla
Terrence Brannon skribis 2005-04-04 18:45 (+):
> So, to avoid confusion with the common understanding of flattening in
> Perl, perhaps it should be called spreading or distributing.
I agree.
Likewise, "slurping" is probably best explained as collecting.
Juerd
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The first discussion of flattening had to do with a list of data being
flattened into an array.
Further down we see another different use of the word "flattening" :
http://dev.perl.org/perl6/synopsis/S06.html
section="Flattening lists">
The unary prefix operator * flattens its operand
