[Cuis-dev] I suppose I shouldn’t be stingy with Arlo either

Casey Ransberger bahweep at icloud.com
Sun May 5 20:20:21 PDT 2019


I wasn’t serious about objecting to #map: as a synonym. I just revel in the Guthrie reference. My tongue was lodged in my cheek a bit there. I’d like to preserve the original verbs of course.

Adding map as a verb might make folks coming from Lisps more comfy.

—C

> On May 5, 2019, at 5:28 PM, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/4/2019 12:41 AM, Casey Ransberger via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> It’s a longish shaggy-dog story but boy does that shaggy-dog ever explain our choice of words for collections.
>> 
>> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM
> 
> From time to time I still struggle to find some use for #infect: and #neglect: ...
> 
> Still, I wouldn't oppose to adding #map: #reduce: or whatever synonyms make people happy...
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