std.compress

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 5 12:47:44 PDT 2013


On 6/5/13 12:34 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/5/13 2:26 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 17:36:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Right now we have joiner(), which given several ranges of T, offers a
>>> range of T. Developing along that idea, we should have two opposite
>>> functions: itemize() and collect().
>>
>> collect() is sometimes used as the name for map() in some languages
>> (e.g., Ruby, Smalltalk). I don't think it's a problem but maybe a note
>> in the documentation would be warranted to point people to map.
>> Alternatively it could be called something like bundle or parcel.
>
> Love bundle/parcel! Probably bundle more because it's more obvious it's a verb.
>
> Andrei

Well, both bundle and parcel can be both nouns and verbs.


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