There is also the TIMTOWTDI approach, favored by languages like Ruby: alias them. Have both `foldl` and `foldLeft`, `select` and `filter`, `inject` and `reduce`. I am not necessarily advocating this position, just enumerating another potential option.
On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 10:12:57 AM UTC-4, Robin Heggelund Hansen wrote: > > In Elm 0.18, primes are being removed as valid characters in a > variable/function name. The reason being, which I whole heartedly agree > with, that removing primes will incentivize people to write proper names, > and also because the difference between model and model' isn't always easy > to spot. > > In the same spirit, I propose that we change the name of foldl to > foldLeft, and the name of foldr to foldRight. The difference between foldl > and foldr isn't to spot at a cursory glance. foldLeft is also more > self-describing than foldl, it also matches what I say when I read foldl > aloud while explaining code to others. > > FYI: Scala has also called their functions foldLeft and foldRight. > > I think this proposal would benefit both seasoned and new Elm developers. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
