From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: Generalized vs generic
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 08:34:13 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874qgizsq2.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 66e540fe05021001586e652353@mail.gmail.com
Mikael Djurfeldt <mdjurfeldt@gmail.com> writes:
>
> To me, the name "generalized_vector" feels a bit odd and heavy.
> Looking in the dictionaries, it seems like the term "generic_vector"
> would be more fitting. What do the native English speakers say?
I would steer clear of "generic", since it has a specific meaning for
goops.
Shortening to perhaps "general" would read fine to me.
Something like "any-vector-ref" may be an option, since there's no
such thing as a generalized vector, they're just functions for
accessing any vector.
Except "any" doesn't read terribly well to me, it's a bit close to
srfi-1 `any' for a start. Some other similar word maybe.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-10 9:58 Generalized vs generic Mikael Djurfeldt
2005-02-11 21:34 ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2005-02-12 10:55 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2005-02-20 23:14 ` Kevin Ryde
2005-02-28 2:02 ` Marius Vollmer
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