Should we add drop to Phobos?

Marco Leise Marco.Leise at gmx.de
Sun Aug 14 10:20:46 PDT 2011


Am 14.08.2011, 14:45 Uhr, schrieb Timon Gehr <timon.gehr at gmx.ch>:

> I'd argue that find should actually have been called dropUntil. It is  
> not evident at all what find does, given the name alone. If it is called  
> dropUntil, nobody ever needs to read the documentation, be it the guy  
> who writes the code or the guy who has to read it. But as it is probably  
> heavily used, it is not sensible renaming it now. (and all I have to do  
> is define an alias :))

When I first came across find I expected it to find a single item.  
dropUntil makes more sense to me, too.


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