On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Titus von der Malsburg
<malsb...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:04:03AM -0400, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> > This may seem like a minor point, but I think it is worthwhile using
> > descriptive names for functions.
>
> Makes sense. I thought I've seen this use somewhere else (probably in
> Lisp?). What better name do you suggest for this operation?
>
The two meanings I can think of in Lisp for splicing are
1) The backquote operator ,@X, which means to insert the value of X as part
of the surrounding list rather than as an element of the list, e.g. `(a b
,@'(c d) e f) == (append '(a b) '(c d) '(e f)) => (a b c d e f), as opposed
to `(a b ,'(c d) e f) == (append '(a b) (list '(c d)) '(e f)) => (a b (c d)
e f).
2) The notion of inserting (typically destructively) one list in the middle
of another.
I would suggest a name like 'intersperse' or 'alternate'.
-s
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