ch-ch-update: series, closed-form series, and strides

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:35:50 +0100, Ary Borenszweig <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu escribió:
>> bearophile wrote:
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>>> foreach (e; take(10, fib)) writeln(e);
>>>
>>> I think take(fib, 10) is quite better.
>>> I presume the API of those things will need about a year of usage to  
>>> become refined.
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> bearophile
>>  SPJ held a gun to my head and said: "take(10, fib)".
>
> Who is SPJ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peyton_Jones

> I find "take(10, fib)" more readable: take 10 from fib. Same order.

Yeah, me too. "Take fib from 10" sounds backwards.

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Simen