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From: tomas@fabula.de
Cc: tomas@fabula.de
Subject: Re: doco srfi-1 delete, delete-duplicates
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 10:15:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030514081539.GB1102@www> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xy7y91absgh.fsf@nada.kth.se>

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:40:46PM +0200, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:

[...]

> That's fine with me.  (I guess there is an alternative naming scheme
> along `delete?' etc.)
> 
> Finding names must be one of the most difficult problems in software
> engineering---really.

I agree. And one of the appeals of this list to me is that such
things actually get discussed.

[insert some semi-philosophical rambling about least-surprise,
data compression in the brain and knowing how a function will
be called like without ever looking it upin the docs]

Regards
-- tomas


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-14  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-12 23:50 doco srfi-1 delete, delete-duplicates Kevin Ryde
2003-05-13  2:26 ` Rob Browning
2003-05-13  9:25   ` tomas
2003-05-13 11:52     ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-05-13 13:31       ` tomas
2003-05-13 18:40         ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-05-14  8:15           ` tomas [this message]
2003-05-15 23:29       ` Kevin Ryde
2003-05-15 23:47         ` Paul Jarc

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