[alexandria-devel] curry and rcurry -> papply and rpapply?

Tobias C. Rittweiler tcr at freebits.de
Mon Jun 8 07:40:26 UTC 2009


Nikodemus Siivola <nikodemus at random-state.net> writes:

> I'm not sure. I'm not totally opposed, but I'm not convinced either:
> even if it wrong, the names are "culturally correct", if you will.
> Names partial-apply and partial-reverse-apply would be my preferred
> ones if we did the renaming.

I find them too long. Long names can distract from the intent of the
actual code. They're supposed to merely combine domain-level logic, but
being long they make the impression they're more than that. 

  -T.





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