Never thought of it that way, I always verb the noun. Did you learn about reductions, yet? It's clear that the name corresponds to the intended output at least in that case.
On Friday, May 9, 2014, Mike Fikes <[email protected]> wrote: > I am new to functional programming and caught myself reading “reduce” as > “the reduction of.” > > Do you experienced Clojure programmers find yourselves thinking in terms > of nouns instead of verbs? (Non-temporal expressions as opposed to actions?) > > Some of the operations reinforce this way of thinking (“range” and “max”) > while others don't (“map” and “take”) while some can easily be either > (“count” and “mod”) and some that resist being either (“if” and “let”). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:;> > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:;> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:;>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
