George, Thanks very much for this. I like your suggestion, which fits the logical structure perfectly; and you've suggested a neat way around the ugliness of 'group groupBy'. I also note that if we aren't so worried about not introducing new keywords, that 'then group' could become 'group'. Yours, -- P On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:21 PM, George Giorgidze wrote:

A quick thought that came to me after hoogling [a] -> [[a]]. The first four functions in the search result are named after what they return (noun in plural) rather than what they do (verb). I am talking about inits, permutations, subsequence and tails. So I thought the following syntax might work as well if (as it is already common) grouping functions are named after what they return. then f then f by e then group f then group f by e For example the following code fragments read well: then group inits then group permutations then group subsequences then group tails Here we use the special identifier group as a verb. I have not told you about the fifth result of the hoogling, the groupWith function. The following really looks ugly: then group groupWith by e But following the aforementioned naming convention the groupWith function could as well be named as equals. Now this reads well: then group equals by e Cheers, George

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