Andrew Rodland skribis 2005-04-04 22:34 (-0400):
Likewise, slurping is probably best explained as collecting.
I like this. I'd be tempted to suggest scatter / gather, but that's
Gather is taken.
probably a bit opaque to the average reader. How about describing them as
expand / collect for
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:34:13PM -0400, Andrew Rodland wrote:
: On Monday 04 April 2005 06:34 pm, Juerd wrote:
: Terrence Brannon skribis 2005-04-04 18:45 (+):
: So, to avoid confusion with the common understanding of flattening in
: Perl, perhaps it should be called spreading or
The first discussion of flattening had to do with a list of data being
flattened into an array.
Further down we see another different use of the word flattening :
quote
src=http://dev.perl.org/perl6/synopsis/S06.html
section=Flattening lists
The unary prefix operator *
Terrence Brannon skribis 2005-04-04 18:45 (+):
So, to avoid confusion with the common understanding of flattening in
Perl, perhaps it should be called spreading or distributing.
I agree.
Likewise, slurping is probably best explained as collecting.
Juerd
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On Monday 04 April 2005 06:34 pm, Juerd wrote:
Terrence Brannon skribis 2005-04-04 18:45 (+):
So, to avoid confusion with the common understanding of flattening in
Perl, perhaps it should be called spreading or distributing.
I agree.
Likewise, slurping is probably best explained as
