On Fri, 09 May 2008 22:45:26 -0500, rpw3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Rob Warnock) wrote:
>George Neuner <gneuner2/@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>On Wed, 7 May 2008 16:13:36 -0700 (PDT), "xahlee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>><xahlee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>• Functions [in Mathematica] that takes elements out of list
>>>are variously named First, Rest, Last, Extract, Part, Take,
>>>Select, Cases, DeleteCases... as opposed to “car”, “cdr”,
>>>“filter”, “filter”, “pop”, “shift”, “unshift”, in lisps and
>>>perl and other langs.
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>>| Common Lisp doesn't have "filter".
>
>Of course it does! It just spells it REMOVE-IF-NOT!! ;-} ;-}
I know. You snipped the text I replied to.
Xah carelessly conflated functions snatched from various languages in
an attempt to make some point about intuitive naming. If he objects
to naming a function "filter", you can just imagine what he'd have to
say about remove-if[-not].
George
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