Re: name an array function

[David Pirotte <david@altosw.be>]

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Le Wed, 23 Nov 2016 17:07:30 +0100,
Daniel Llorens <daniel.llorens@bluewin.ch> a écrit :

> On 21 Nov 2016, at 14:56, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> > I (politely) disagree: the most "commonly" used function is
> > already array-ref, so you would seldomly use array-from/slice
> > for a scalar result (the rank-0 result will be more frequent,
> > because there's no substitute). But hey, as I said.  
> 
> I don't use array-ref/set! anymore since array-from/amend! generalize them. I
> actually use a further generalization in a separate library :p
> 
> But I have a proposal below that makes this discussion moot, I hope.
> 
> | master (current)    | meaning                          | proposal             |
> |---------------------+----------------------------------+----------------------|
> | array-from*         | look up subarray, even #0(x)     | array-slice          |
> | array-from          | look up cell, so x and not #0(x) | array-cell-ref       |
> | array-amend!        | set cell                         | array-cell-set!      |
> | array-for-each-cell | iterate over subarrays           | array-for-each-slice |

I'd use 

	array-slice-ref/set!
	array-slice-for-each

Unless I miss understood something :)

Cheers,
David

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