[Prototype-core] Re: Function.EMPTY and Function.K

2009-10-21 Thread Izidor Jerebic
On 16.10.2009, at 23:45, Иван Жеков wrote: Don't get me wrong, but we are not talking about splitting the core of the atom in 16 different particles. Instead the topic of discussion is how to name (and where to place) the empty and identity function. Two things should be taken into

[Prototype-core] Re: Function.EMPTY and Function.K

2009-10-21 Thread Izidor Jerebic
On Oct 21, 12:44 pm, Izidor Jerebic ij.l...@gmail.com wrote: I beg to differ. IDENTITY is constant in function value space similarly as PI is constant in floating point value space. There is only one IDENTITY and only one PI... This calls for all-upper-case, similarly for K (or whatever

[Prototype-core] Re: Function.EMPTY and Function.K

2009-10-21 Thread Izidor Jerebic
On 21.10.2009, at 16:40, Robert Kieffer wrote: Or to put it another way, what is the difference between f(x) = x and f(x) = x+1... why would the former be up-cased, but not the latter? Ours already has a name in mathematics - identity function, and it is primarily used by assigning