On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote:

> Rick Waldron wrote:
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>> copySlice/copyWithin is similar to the subset assignment operation in R,
>> eg. vec[4:6] <- vec[1:3]
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> Didn't know you were an R hacker :-).
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More like an R beginner that had to confer with a real R hacker ;)

Rick


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>  Array.prototype.subset(target = 0, start = 0, end = this.length)?
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> These names make my eyes itch.
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> I wonder if we are better off with just copy (and fill)?



I'm very much with you in the short-name-to-the-point camp, but the general
opposition was that "copy" (alone) sounded more like a method that
_returned_ a "copy". I argue that "copy" is not incorrect—it's just not an
overlyExplicitMethodName (a good thing).

Rick


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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote:

> Didn't know you were an R hacker :-).

More like an R beginner that had to confer with a real R hacker ;)

> These names make my eyes itch.
>
> I wonder if we are better off with just copy (and fill)?



I'm very much with you in the short-name-to-the-point camp, but the general
opposition was that "copy" (alone) sounded more like a method that
_returned_ a "copy". I argue that "copy" is not incorrect—it's just not an
overlyExplicitMethodName (a good thing).