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* Naming FCRs
@ 2021-12-26 22:04 Stefan Monnier
  2021-12-26 22:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
                   ` (4 more replies)
  0 siblings, 5 replies; 38+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2021-12-26 22:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

Hi,

As the year is getting near its end, I figure it's a good time to open
a competition to choose a name for the thingy I've been playing with in
`scratch/fcr`.

The current name stands for FunCallableRecords, but this name is clearly
wrong, since it makes it sound like I'm defining a special kind of
record that just happen to be callable as a function, whereas FCRs are
really fundamentally functions that happen to have slots and a type,
like records.

So I'm asking here for suggestions of a better name.
Names that are technically "acceptable" but aren't very good:
- propertized functions (since the slots can also be called properties).
- translucent functions (since you can extract information from FCRs
  without having to call them, so they're less opaque).
- categorized functions (since "category" is similar to "type").
- functions with slots.
- record-like functions.
- Monomaniac objects (since they're a bit like OO-style objects but
  limited to have only exactly one method).
A good name would ideally come with a fun abbreviation.
Feel free to send me your ideas,


        Stefan




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2021-12-26 22:04 Naming FCRs Stefan Monnier
2021-12-26 22:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-27 18:55   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-28  0:31     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-27  0:46 ` Bob Rogers
2021-12-28 13:11   ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-29 16:33   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-04 20:31     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-11  3:25       ` Filipp Gunbin
2022-01-11  3:44         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-12  4:56           ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-12 15:10             ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-27  1:35 ` Po Lu
2021-12-27  2:33   ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-27  4:12     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-27  7:33       ` tomas
2021-12-29  1:09         ` Phil Sainty
2021-12-28  4:19   ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-28  5:43     ` Po Lu
2021-12-28 11:24       ` Andreas Schwab
2021-12-28 17:28         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-30 10:35           ` Andreas Schwab
2021-12-27  4:15 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-27  5:46   ` LdBeth
2021-12-27 19:48     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-27  4:38 ` Jim Porter
     [not found]   ` <jwvczlheu3o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2021-12-28 18:35     ` Jim Porter
2021-12-29  1:02       ` Phil Sainty
2021-12-29 16:19       ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-29 16:43         ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-29 19:01         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-30  2:54           ` LdBeth
2021-12-30  4:28           ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-30  8:43             ` tomas
2021-12-30 10:15               ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-12-30 14:00                 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-30 18:46                   ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-12-31  4:26                   ` Richard Stallman

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