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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

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)
>
>