On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 12:47:44PM -0700, Brad Roberts wrote: > On 6/5/13 12:34 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >On 6/5/13 2:26 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: > >>On Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 17:36:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >>>Right now we have joiner(), which given several ranges of T, offers a > >>>range of T. Developing along that idea, we should have two opposite > >>>functions: itemize() and collect(). > >> > >>collect() is sometimes used as the name for map() in some languages > >>(e.g., Ruby, Smalltalk). I don't think it's a problem but maybe a note > >>in the documentation would be warranted to point people to map. > >>Alternatively it could be called something like bundle or parcel. > > > >Love bundle/parcel! Probably bundle more because it's more obvious > >it's a verb. > > > >Andrei > > Well, both bundle and parcel can be both nouns and verbs.
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