std.compress

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

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