Peter Funk wrote:
>
> What about calling this function 'permute()'?
-1 on this: We are not looking for all possible pairings but for the
(possibly lazy) equivalent of map(None, list1, list2, ...).
> BTW: How comes, that Ping very often invents or introduces very clever
> ideas and concepts, but also very often chooses unclear names for them?
> Is it just me not being a native english speaker?
I still think "zip" is okay, but that's probably my Haskell background.
And no, I don't think it has to do something with not being a native
English speaker. It's probably more the context you associate with
"zip".
I can't comment on earlier cases, though.
heading-to-work-ly y'rs
Peter
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