The names `first-by` and `find-first-by` both sound good to me. Alexis?
> On Oct 12, 2015, at 4:54 PM, Martin DeMello <martindeme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One problem with generalising find-max and find-min into a single hof is that > they are closer in spirit to a fold than a find. The name find- makes you > think that the passed in function should be a predicate on one element, not > two. How about something like first-by? > > > (first-by string<? (compose1 symbol->string second) '((3 pears) (1 banana) > > (2 apples))) > '(2 apples) > > martin > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Alex Knauth <alexan...@knauth.org > <mailto:alexan...@knauth.org>> wrote: > Hi, > > Alexis King and I were discussing adding versions of argmin and argmax to the > alexis/collection library, but we agreed that find-min and find-max were > clearer names. Then we came up with a generalization of those that would take > an ordering procedure (< for find-min and > for find-max), and find the > element that had a property greater/less than the properties of all the other > elements, by the ordering procedure (not restricted to numbers). > > The problem was naming it. We thought of `find-best` and > `find-most-relevant`, but `find-best` would be confusing when it's being used > to find the worst case, and `find-most-relevant` seems better but to wordy. > > Do any of you have any ideas? > > Examples: > > (the-function < first '((3 pears) (1 banana) (2 apples))) ; find-min would > > be a shorthand for this > '(1 banana) > > (the-function > first '((3 pears) (1 banana) (2 apples))) ; find-max would > > be a shorthand for this > '(3 pears) > > (the-function string<? (compose1 symbol->string second) '((3 pears) (1 > > banana) (2 apples))) > '(2 apples) > > (the-function string>? (compose1 symbol->string second) '((3 pears) (1 > > banana) (2 apples))) > '(3 pears) > > https://github.com/lexi-lambda/racket-alexis-collections/pull/9#issuecomment-145727937 > > <https://github.com/lexi-lambda/racket-alexis-collections/pull/9#issuecomment-145727937> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
