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

John Nowak <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:55:23 -0400

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On Mar 23, 2009, at 2:42 PM, John Cowan wrote:

> On the contrary, my intent was to point out that it makes matters  
> worse.
> Not only is the metaphorical sense of "cleave" unclear, its literal
> sense is unclear too.  IMHO it should be banned.

In all seriousness, I prefer the J term "fork" for cleave. For spread,  
I'd suggest "par", or "parallel". Both of these come from how you  
visualize the computation:

FORK

    x
   / \
  F   G

PAR

  x  y
  |  |
  F  G

"Par" is also nice because you're sort of "pairing off" objects and  
functions. Maybe "pair" is better than "par" actually.

- John