On May 26, 10:29 am, Fogus <mefo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have mentioned my gripes in the IRC, but for public view I would > love better names for chomp and chop. In isolation those names are > meaningless, so I suggest:
Almost every name in a programming language is meaningless in isolation. But we don't work in isolation. Look at "slurp". I had to explain that one to a non-programmer colleague the other day. "chomp" has a clear meaning to anyone who's touched Perl/Ruby/shell- scripting. "rtrim" in isolation could mean trim newlines, or trim whitespace, or trim some specified characters, or trim arbitrary characters. "less" is so generic it could mean almost anything. But this is largely an aesthetic question and I'm not going to lose sleep if we end up with a word other than "chomp". --Brian -- 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
