On Monday 04 April 2005 06:34 pm, Juerd wrote: > Terrence Brannon skribis 2005-04-04 18:45 (+0000): > > So, to avoid confusion with the common understanding of flattening in > > Perl, perhaps it should be called spreading or distributing. > > I agree. > > Likewise, "slurping" is probably best explained as collecting.
I like this. I'd be tempted to suggest "scatter" / "gather", but that's probably a bit opaque to the average reader. How about describing them as "expand" / "collect" for a matched pair? That's got a legacy in math, and some mathematically-oriented languages. Andrew
