On Fri, 09 May 2008 22:45:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Warnock) wrote: >George Neuner <gneuner2/@/comcast.net> wrote: > >>On Wed, 7 May 2008 16:13:36 -0700 (PDT), "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>• Functions [in Mathematica] that takes elements out of list >>>are variously named First, Rest, Last, Extract, Part, Take, >>>Select, Cases, DeleteCases... as opposed to “car”, “cdr”, >>>“filter”, “filter”, “pop”, “shift”, “unshift”, in lisps and >>>perl and other langs. > >>| Common Lisp doesn't have "filter". > >Of course it does! It just spells it REMOVE-IF-NOT!! ;-} ;-}
I know. You snipped the text I replied to. Xah carelessly conflated functions snatched from various languages in an attempt to make some point about intuitive naming. If he objects to naming a function "filter", you can just imagine what he'd have to say about remove-if[-not]. George -- for email reply remove "/" from address -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
