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<p>I think the original suggestion was not <span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'intercalculate', but </span>'intercalate', which may be accurate, but is very obscure, even
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<p>'Join' is both vague and specific, since it already has many specialized uses in algebra (e.g. lattices have 'meet' and 'join'), which Haskell has picked up.<br>
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<p>I don't have a dog in this fight, but tentatively suggest 'delimit', which is ugly, but comprehensible based on the common usage of 'delimiter'.<br>
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<p>Mike<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org <erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org> on behalf of Chandru <chandrashekhar.mullaparthi@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 8, 2016 10:24<br>
<b>To:</b> Loïc Hoguin<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [erlang-questions] Proposal: add lists:intersperse/2 and lists:intercalate/2</font>
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<div dir="ltr">On 7 March 2016 at 16:04, Loïc Hoguin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:essen@ninenines.eu" target="_blank">essen@ninenines.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span class="">On 03/07/2016 04:53 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:<br>
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<span class="">On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:28 AM Jesper Louis Andersen<br>
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On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Garrett Smith <<a href="mailto:g@rre.tt" target="_blank">g@rre.tt</a><br>
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It's vague, as is intercalculate, but as it's superficially<br>
doing what string "join" does with chars has some precedence<br>
within Erlang. I wouldn't call it hopeless.<br>
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I'm probably leaning away from using 'join' at this point, since<br>
'join' already have type<br>
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join :: Monad M => m (m a) -> m a<br>
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so from an FP perspective, that name is highly confusing since it is<br>
in use in monadic context and is used to join monadic data into its<br>
own monadic context. For a list, join is essentially 'append':<br>
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Prelude Control.Monad> join ["a", "b", "c"]<br>
"abc"<br>
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But join is monadic, so `join $ Just Nothing` evaluates to `Nothing`.<br>
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Sigh. Okay, so the future naming discussions will involve with word<br>
monad and monadic?<br>
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You've seen the discussions around adoption and the disruptive influence<br>
of Elixir?<br>
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For whatever reason FP pedantry is not a draw for me. When I need<br>
inspiration I look to Python. Maybe that's the wrong direction and we<br>
need to drive our community through more gates.<br>
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I am completely with you on that. If the function was called intercalculate I'd never find it and would continue writing my own.<br>
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<div>I second this. I'm part of the vast number of unwashed masses who've never heard of the term intercalculate, and if I came across it in a developer's code would think that they were being a bit too clever. Like many others I have written this piece of
code several times and invariably named it 'concat_with_separator' - a mouthful but it conveys (at least to me) what exactly the function is doing.</div>
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<div>cheers,</div>
<div>Chandru</div>
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