Re: Fully lazy sequences are coming - feedback wanted!

[Rich Hickey]

On Feb 15, 2:48 pm, Vincent Foley <vfo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Rich,
>
> I'll play around with the lazy branch this week, and this is just a
> name suggestion: what do you think of first/tail/rest where (rest s)
> == (seq (tail s))?  tail is already used in other functional languages
> such as Haskell and OCaml to represent all-but-the-first elements, so
> it wouldn't be completely foreign.
>

That falls into the synonym category - tail/rest mean roughly the same
thing. tail complements head, which we aren't using. Coming from
outside, I'd have no idea which did what or why.

Rich

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