[WORK] groupBy is in! Next: aggregate

Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jan 26 08:38:21 PST 2015


On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 08:11 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:26:04AM +0000, bearophile via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > Russel Winder:
> > 
> > >but is it's name "group by" as understood by the rest of the world?
> > 
> > Nope...
> [...]
> 
> I proposed to rename it but it got shot down. *shrug*

What name do you think works for this operation?

> We still have a short window of time to sort this out, before 2.067 is
> released...

To be honest, given the confirmation that the semantics of this
operation and that of the one other languages call groupBy are
different, then 2.067 should not go out with this operation called
groupBy.
> 

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