Re: [boost] De Bruijn Bind (alternate bind syntax) Interest?

Subject: Re: [boost] De Bruijn Bind (alternate bind syntax) Interest?
From: Larry Evans (cppljevans_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-02 14:32:22

On 09/02/10 12:52, Stewart, Robert wrote:
> David Sankel wrote:
[snip]
>> I disagree. We have namespaces to take care of duplicate
>> identifiers and abs is the commonly used identifier for
>> lambda abstractions in programming contexts you might not be
>> aware of.
> 
> I don't doubt that the name is meaningful, but it does conflict 
> with an extremely common name which isn't necessarily even in a
> named namespace.  Isn't there another name you could use that
> wouldn't have that potential for confusion and ambiguity?

How about using the names from:

  http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/richard.bird/online
  /BirdPaterson99DeBruijn.pdf

i.e.

  Lam for the lambda symbol,
  Var for the positive number representing a arg
    or maybe Arg would be even better, and more
    like the current mpl.

?