I also like "agreement", "conformance"... In a situation like this, I reach for a thesaurus- very useful when looking for just the right name for a variable/method name/way to describe a concept. Here's a grab bag to start with:
accord, agree, conformance, conformation, conformity, congruence, congruity, consensus, consonance, correspondence, harmony, unison agree, fit, correspond, compeer, meet, gibe, pair, mate, twin, cope with, touch Fit, correspond, congruity, harmonize seem like other good descriptions for the concept. Fit is especially good due to its brevity, and congruence is good due to the use of ~~ as the smartmatch aka congruence/fitness/agreement/harmonizing/correspondence/conformance operator. (Bikeshed?) -y On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:35 AM, David Green <david.gr...@telus.net> wrote: > On 2012-March-21, at 6:38 pm, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> The idea of smart-matching a function just doesn't quite fit with my brain. >> I can memorize the fact that smart-matching 7 and &foo means evaluating >> foo(7) and seeing if the value is true, but I can't say I "understand" it. > > Maybe it just needs a better name. "Match" implies that two (or more) things > are being compared against each other, and that's how smart-matching started > out, but it's been generalised beyond that. The underlying .ACCEPTS method > suggests "acceptance"... but that's too broad (a function can "accept" args > without returning true). "Agreement" fits, in the sense of "that [food] > agrees with me", but I think it suggests equality a bit too strongly. > "Accordance"? "Conformance"? "Validation"? That seems a good match (ahem) > for the concept: ~~ checks whether some value is "valid" (or "desired"?) > according to certain criteria. The obvious way to validate some value > against a simple string or number is to compare them; or against a pattern, > to see if the value matches; but given a function, you check the value by > passing it to the function and seeing whether it says yea or nay. > > I'm not sure "validation" or "validity" is the best name, but it conforms > better to what smart-"matching" does. Or "conformance".... Hm. But > terminology that sets up the appropriate expectations is a good thing. > > > -David >
