Sorry, meant to send this to the list, not Christian... ---- Original Message: From: Alistair Bayley Sent: Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 20:32 Subject: Re: nub Wouldn't this have been better called "unique"? (analogous to the Unix program "uniq"). I was looking for a "unique" in the GHC Data.List library a few days ago, and didn't see one, so I wrote my own (not realising that was what "nub" did). ---- Original Message: From: Christian Maeder Sent: Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 17:51 Subject: nub
What does "nub" stand for? (This is the first I've heard of it.)
Hmm, maybe that's not such a great explanation. I wonder who can come up with the best acronym? My contribution is
"Note Unique Bits"
"no duplicates" (or "no doubles") although that's no acronym Christian