On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 05:58:16AM -0400, Ricky Teachey wrote:
> Perhaps use the iter function name as the generic? "itered". As opposed to
> "iterated" or "iterated over".
>
> Example:
>
> "the statement below iterates over an iterator, itered from a sequence"
Or just avoid the issue:
"The statement below iterates over a sequence"
which is perfectly valid and correct.
If we do feel the need to drill down into pedantic technical details,
instead of making up ugly words that nobody will have any clue
whatsoever what the meaning is[1], we could use one of many existing
English words:
built from
formed from
constructed from
made from
fabricated from
created from
put together from
etc. And notice I avoided using terms which imply that the sequence
itself is transformed into an iterator, such as "converting into".
[1] "Iter" is an old term for a passage, in particular an anatomical
term for a passage in the brain, so "itered" would be the past tense of
a verb to turn something into a passage.
--
Steven
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