Re: Would seq-range and seq-mapcat be useful?

[Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>]

Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu> writes:

> Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr> writes:
>> Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> writes:
>>> I like `seq-group-by`.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure about `seq-mapcat`, since there is `cl-mapcan` (although
>>> it's destructive), I guess `seq-mapcat` would be fine.
>>>
>>> And I would prefer the name `seq-partition` instead of `seq-slice`,
>>> since `partition' is a Clojure name with same effect, and slice means
>>> something different in Python.
>>
>> Yes, I felt the same.
>
> Makes sense. Array slicing seems to be just taking a subsequence in a
> lot of languages.  Perhaps aliasing seq-slice to seq-subseq would be
> good to do.

The bad thing about aliases is that you have to remember both, so
they're not helping at all.  There will always be person A using alias A
and person B using alias B.  Both of them will have trouble to read each
others code.

This is why e.g. Python is so determined to have only way of doing
things.

Oleh