Naming and wrapping up
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
(06 Mar 2022 17:16 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(06 Mar 2022 17:28 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
Ray Dillinger
(06 Mar 2022 18:56 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
Arthur A. Gleckler
(06 Mar 2022 20:18 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
(08 Mar 2022 18:21 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
Lassi Kortela
(09 Mar 2022 07:05 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
Amirouche
(06 Mar 2022 22:42 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
(13 Mar 2022 22:29 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
siiky
(13 Mar 2022 22:46 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
(14 Mar 2022 16:06 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(14 Mar 2022 16:14 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
siiky
(14 Mar 2022 18:48 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (14 Mar 2022 18:51 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
siiky
(14 Mar 2022 19:33 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
(14 Mar 2022 23:57 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(15 Mar 2022 12:54 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
(16 Mar 2022 18:06 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
(16 Mar 2022 18:45 UTC)
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Re: Naming and wrapping up
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
(16 Mar 2022 20:24 UTC)
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curried is better the curry because the defined procedure is not the curry procedure but a curried procedure. Am Mo., 14. März 2022 um 19:48 Uhr schrieb siiky <xxxxxx@net-c.cat>: > > On 3/14/22 16:14, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote: > > Am Mo., 14. März 2022 um 17:06 Uhr schrieb Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe > > <xxxxxx@sigwinch.xyz>: > >> > >> Hi siiky, > >> > >> On 2022-03-13 22:46 +0000, siiky wrote: > >>> On 13 March 2022 22:29:28 UTC, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe <xxxxxx@sigwinch.xyz> wrote: > >>>> On 2022-03-06 22:42 +0000, Amirouche wrote: > >>>>> I vote for kappa. > >>>> > >>>> Unless there are objections, I think I've settled on kappa. > >>>> I haven't found any other uses of that name in the libraries of the > >>>> major Scheme implementations, so I think it's reasonable. > >>>> > >>> > >>> I'm curious to know the origin. Is it the letter, the meme, or the youkai[0]? (: > >> > >> It's just the Latinized spelling-out of κ (which, as with λ, could be > >> a synonym in Schemes with full Unicode names). The intended mnemonic > >> is "kappa/κ as in kurry". > >> > >>> And how would it be used? (kappa (...) ...) > >> > >> Yes. It's just a replacement name for lambda*. > >> > >>> and (define-kappa (foo ...) ...) ? > >> > >> I still prefer define-curried for the define wrapper. > > > > So why not "curried" instead of "kappa" then? I think this also helps > > people who don't know SRFI 232 to understand what is roughly going on. > > "kappa" is just as good (or bad) as "wolfgang" when it comes to > > carrying information. :) > > I agree with "unifying" both names, similarly to the optional arguments > SRFI. > > So, although I don't have a preference for either, I think that if > you're going with `kappa`, `define-kappa` makes sense; and if you're > going with `define-curried` (or `define-curry`), then `curried` (or > `curry`) for the `lambda` analogue makes more sense. > > (I have a stronger preference for shorter names than I have for any one > specific name) > >