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

Brent Vukmer bvukmer at blackboard.com
Fri Jun 27 17:09:45 UTC 2003


"mapcan" is the name of the changeset; the actual method name is
"concatenation"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: frank at canyon-medical.com [mailto:frank at canyon-medical.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:05 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: [ENH] mapcan ( [cd][er][et][sm] please consider a 
> non-Lispish name ) 
> 
> 
> 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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