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[David Hopwood]

Brian Rice wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2005, at 7:54 PM, David Hopwood wrote:
>> Brian Rice wrote:
>>> On Apr 13, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Brian Rice wrote:
>>>
>>> On further thought, concatenateAll: and such probably deserve a more 
>>> succinct selector. The equivalent of this is "join" in 
>>> perl/python(/ruby? I forget), although Common Lisp / Dylan just call 
>>> it "concatenate". [...] Ideas?
>>
>> Haskell calls it "concat". I don't see the motivation for ";*".
> 
> You don't see the motivation for the particular selector, for the idea 
> of join, or for a separate concatenation from binary concatenation? 
> Which is it?

For the particular selector. It's fairly obvious what "concat" or
"concatenate" does, but I'd never remember what ";*" does.

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David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>