[m-dev.] for review: set__divide

[Zoltan Somogyi]

>From Simon Taylor on 04/01/2001 06:14:55
> I agree with you. Maybe we should add a predicate `list__divide/4' which
> is the same as `list__filter/4', and mark `list__filter/4' as obsolete.
> It's annoying when two modules have predicates which do the same thing
> but have different names.

On 04-Jan-2001, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Overloading names between funcs and preds is a pain.  Personally I'd like
> to ditch all the preds that have func equivalents in the next version of
> the library.

I agree with both of you, but since that will require updating the calls to
the renamed library predicates in the compiler, it will be a separate change.

> Very minor suggestion: `partition' sounds more obvious than `divide' to
> me, if we want a different name to `filter'.

I thought about that, but decided to keep `partition' free for a future
predicate/function that partitions a set into an arbitrary number of
components, not just two.

Zoltan.
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