Re: [stack] Advantages of cat, joy ..?

William Tanksley scripsit:

> By the way, are the words "cleave" and "spread" actually standard use? I
> always get them backwards, because it SEEMS to me that "cleaving"
> dataflow should separate one datum from another, while "spreading" data
> should take the same data and make it available to more code (like
> spreading butter over bread). Yet that's the opposite of how Factor uses
> the words. Does anyone know the reason for the naming convention?

Perhaps because _cleave_ has two opposed meanings: 'split', which is
the one you are using, and 'stick together'.  The first is more common
nowadays.  In Old English they were two separate words that have come
to be spelled and pronounced alike.

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