Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> wrote:
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| ;;; * naming the function PARTITION rather than SPLIT.
| I wonder how this change was chosen. Where can I find the discussion?
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I only saved a few of those, but here are some snippets from near the
end of the thread ("Subject: Re: (final?) PARTITION specification").
Hopefully the Message-IDs will help you find them::
Date: 05 Jul 2001 10:23:25 -0400
From: Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu>
Message-ID: <y6clmm3lajm.fsf@octagon.mrl.nyu.edu>
...
I would use SPLIT-SEQUENCE and SPLIT-SEQUENCE-IF. In this way
it is clear that these functions work on any sequence.
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Date: 09 Jul 2001 23:46:56 +0100
From: Christophe Rhodes <csr21@cam.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <sq66d1200v.fsf@lambda.jesus.cam.ac.uk>
...
I remain unconvinced by the legion clamouring for a name change from
partition, to be honest. I think that anything I choose will either
clash with something else or be hideously ugly (or both, of course);
so I'm going to stick to my guns and go with PARTITION. Sorry if that
makes the code or the specification unuseable by anyone.
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Date: 10 Jul 2001 14:01:07 +0200
Subject: Re: (final?) PARTITION specification
Message-ID: <87bsmt9enw.fsf@orion.bln.pmsf.de>
...
In any case, while I'm the original proponent of sticking
to PARTITION, I'd like to add that I could also live with
SPLIT-SEQUENCE or maybe SPLIT-SEQ, if it mattered.
The general sense I got was that a *lot* of people were initially for
SPLIT, but then someone mentioned a conflict with the series package,
so most shifted to SPLIT-SEQUENCE, with decreasing support for PARTITION
as time wore on... except for Christophe. [Apologies if I've severly
mis-stated anything.]
-Rob
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