Re: [boost] [Hana] Informal review request

Subject: Re: [boost] [Hana] Informal review request
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-03-21 20:09:01

On 3/21/2015 12:11 PM, Louis Dionne wrote:
> Edward Diener <eldiener <at> tropicsoft.com> writes:
>
>> On 3/21/2015 10:20 AM, Louis Dionne wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Anyway, so the conclusion is that lazy right folds won't be supported
>>> in Hana, at least not for a while. So this opens the door for renaming
>>> foldl/foldr to fold/reverse_fold. I'll probably start by adding aliases
>>> and then consider removing foldl/foldr, because renaming them all at
>>> once would require more work, especially with the new naming scheme
>>> with no-state overloads that was discussed in the poll at [3].
>>> I hope this sounds reasonable.
>>
>> I would like to urge you to use easily understandable names in your
>> library rather than shortened and more cryptic names. Any extra typing a
>> user of your library may have to do is easily offset by the fact that
>> more easily understandable names make your library much more
>> understandable to use.
>
> Of course, my goal was never to use more cryptic names for the sole
> purpose of reducing the number of letters. When it makes sense to do
> so, I use the names that are used in C++. When there are good reasons
> not to, I use the names used everywhere else in functional programming.
>
> If you have specific examples of places where I use names that seem
> cryptic, please point them out. I will be happy to discuss the reasons
> behind those names and to change them if those reasons are deemed
> insufficient after consideration.

A name like 'foldl' and 'foldr' is what I mean.