From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@fabula.de Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: doco srfi-1 delete, delete-duplicates Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 10:15:39 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030514081539.GB1102@www> References: <87fznj2097.fsf@zip.com.au> <87u1bzponh.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <20030513092528.GB28885@www> <20030513133112.GA29899@www> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052896349 24901 80.91.224.249 (14 May 2003 07:12:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 07:12:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tomas@fabula.de Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 14 09:12:25 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19FqR7-0006T9-00 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 09:12:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FqRS-000208-03 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 03:12:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FqQv-0001Ly-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 03:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FqQk-0001FE-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 03:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.22.192.104] (helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FqQi-0001Ch-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 03:12:00 -0400 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 5002) id 983DD1457F; Wed, 14 May 2003 10:15:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Mikael Djurfeldt Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Original-cc: Rob Browning Original-cc: guile-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2356 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2356 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 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel