[m-dev.] Suggested interface for sequence types in lib-v2
Fergus Henderson
fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Mon Oct 23 23:12:31 AEDT 2000
On 23-Oct-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > The name `project_member' doesn't mean much to me.
> > I think `has_member' or perhaps `contains_member' would be a better
> > name. It would work nicely with infix syntax:
> >
> > List `has_member` Elem
>
> Hmm. `{has,contains}_member' both sound rather like tests to me
> rather than predicates that non-deterministically enumerate
> members.
Good point.
> How about `choose_member' or just `choose'?
`choose_member' sounds good.
It might be worth asking about this on comp.lang.prolog.
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