Lost a new commercial user this week :(

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Dec 27 14:32:18 PST 2014


On 12/27/2014 2:14 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 December 2014 at 20:24:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 4. some terms need exposition, like: "Implements the homonym function present
>> in various programming languages of functional flavor." I have no idea what
>> that means. Googling "homonym function" doesn't produce anything that looks
>> relevant. A link to an entry in http://dlang.org/glossary.html would be good.
>
> "Homonym" is just a fancy way of saying "with the same name". But I agree:
>   1) The docs should avoid overly fancy language.
>   2) Analogies to other languages should never be the primary means of explanation.

Clearly, this should instead be a link to this:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_(higher-order_function)

Ironically, that article refers to std.algorithm.filter!


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