[ENH] mapcan ( [cd][er][et][sm] please consider a non-Lispish name )

frank at canyon-medical.com frank at canyon-medical.com
Fri Jun 27 17:05:05 UTC 2003


Although I am a great fan of Lisp, I feel that, in at least some cases,
Smalltalk names for similar functions are superior to those of Lisp.
For example, I prefer #collect: over #mapCar: .

Perhaps 'mapcan' could be changed to something closer to Smalltalk/English?


-- Frank
<I'm not a bug-fixing machine>



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