From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: map.el and naming
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 15:20:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fv9nsfht.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ioej26ij.fsf@petton.fr>
> From: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
> Cc: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:38:44 +0100
>
> >> I'm working on another library similar to seq.el but for maps (alists
> >> and hash-tables for now).
> >>
> >> I have an issue with naming regarding mapping over keys/values of a
> >> map. I thought about calling `map-map' the function that would map over
> >> the keys and values of map, and `map-map-keys' the function that would
> >> map over the keys of a map, etc.
> >
> > Are there any reasons why we couldn't have map-keys that could accept
> > any object where such an operation makes sense?
>
> That's what I'm doing :)
Then why are you writing a separate library, which is "similar to
seq.el but for maps"? Why not have a single library that handles all
of these objects: lists, strings, vectors, alists, and hash-tables?
> The only issue I have is regarding naming. Stefan proposed to name the
> library map.el, which I like. The only issue I have is that "map" is
> used for the noun (a map) and the verb (to map over things). The result
> is that to map over the keys/values of a map, I have a function named
> `map-map', and I think that's unclear and ugly.
If you have a single library, this issue will go away, right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-02 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-28 12:24 map.el and naming Nicolas Petton
2015-02-28 13:32 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2015-03-03 15:58 ` bburns.km
2015-03-04 7:51 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-03-04 9:38 ` Nic Ferrier
2015-02-28 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-28 16:21 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-03-02 5:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-02 7:38 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-03-02 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-03-02 13:26 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-03-02 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-02 14:33 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-03-02 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-02 15:08 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-03-02 15:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-03-02 16:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-03 3:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-03-03 16:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-04 2:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-03-02 5:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-02 13:59 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-11 0:52 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-11 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-11 14:07 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-11 13:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-11 14:11 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-11 14:24 ` John Yates
2015-04-11 14:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-11 19:54 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-12 3:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-11 14:21 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-12 3:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-11 14:20 ` John Yates
2015-04-11 21:44 ` John Mastro
2015-04-12 3:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-12 7:12 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-04-12 11:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-12 11:59 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-12 12:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-12 13:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-04-12 14:22 ` Yuri Khan
2015-04-12 14:52 ` Nicolas Petton
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