On 12/27/2014 2:14 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Saturday, 27 December 2014 at 20:24:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
4. some terms need exposition, like: "Implements the homonym function present
in various programming languages of functional flavor." I have no idea what
that means. Googling "homonym function" doesn't produce anything that looks
relevant. A link to an entry in http://dlang.org/glossary.html would be good.
"Homonym" is just a fancy way of saying "with the same name". But I agree:
1) The docs should avoid overly fancy language.
2) Analogies to other languages should never be the primary means of
explanation.
Clearly, this should instead be a link to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_(higher-order_function)
Ironically, that article refers to std.algorithm.filter!
