From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mikael Djurfeldt Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: doco srfi-1 delete, delete-duplicates Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 20:40:46 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87fznj2097.fsf@zip.com.au> <87u1bzponh.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <20030513092528.GB28885@www> <20030513133112.GA29899@www> Reply-To: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052851567 1154 80.91.224.249 (13 May 2003 18:46:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 18:46:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rob Browning Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 13 20:46:05 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 19FejU-0008TP-00 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 20:42:37 +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 19Fejg-0001Js-01 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2003 14:42:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Feiq-0000PO-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2003 14:41:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Feim-0000HF-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2003 14:41:53 -0400 Original-Received: from kvast.blakulla.net ([213.212.20.77]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FeiY-0008Bj-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2003 14:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from barbara.blakulla.net ([213.212.21.238] helo=witch) by kvast.blakulla.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19FeiV-0004WE-00; Tue, 13 May 2003 20:41:35 +0200 Original-Received: from mdj by witch with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Fehi-0000FE-00; Tue, 13 May 2003 20:40:46 +0200 Original-To: tomas@fabula.de In-Reply-To: <20030513133112.GA29899@www> (tomas@fabula.de's message of "Tue, 13 May 2003 15:31:12 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Original-cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-cc: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se 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:2353 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2353 tomas@fabula.de writes: > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:52:03PM +0200, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: >> tomas@fabula.de writes: >> > [...] >> > Cmp is good [...] > >> ...and I think "cmp" is cryptic, arbitrary and ugly, while "=" is >> beautiful, and I don't think there is any risk of confusion. I think >> the original "=" is good taste. :-) > > Hehe, design taste makes always for good discussions :-) :-) >> And if you guys anyway want to change it, please 1. give it a readable >> name (e.g. equal-predicate?), and 2. make sure to put a `?' after it >> (if it is a textual name) to indicate that it is a predicate. > > I was for cmp (or similar) since it's not really about equality > (in fact, the example shows a meaningful use of < for it). I > thoroughly agree with you on the ?, but I think equal-predicate? > would be misleading (since it's not about any kind of equality > here -- the < used in the example isn't even an equivalence relation). > > So how would be `compare?' 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. M _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel