[alexandria-devel] Reminder alexandria:curry is not currying

Attila Lendvai attila.lendvai at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 07:41:20 UTC 2012


> Unfortunately, the wrong usage of the term "curry" has been going on
> in the Common Lisp world for years now, and many people have moved
> over to using Alexandria's CURRY and RCURRY instead of the versions in
> their private library.  At this point, it would be really upsetting to
> remove those names from Alexandria again, however "wrong" they may be.

well, keeping on calling a spade a 'hammer is also upsetting once we
got to know that it's not called a 'spade by the rest of the world...
:)

sticking to old versions in the age of version control is trivial. and
if it's not, then that is the real problem that needs fixing.

i'm being philosophical here, promoting consistency (one may say truth
even), without a strong opinion on the actual issue.

-- 
 attila

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