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Re: Changing the name

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>
> > It doesn't look as though the poster knows what "curry" means
> > outside the context of this SRFI.
>
>        That is quite true -- as I say, he's trying to _find out_ what
>currying does.  So why is he looking at SRFI-26?  Because it deals with a
>macro named CURRY -- if the macro were called SECTION instead, he probably
>would never have seen SRFI-26.
>


I agree.

(After all, what's so "unintuive" about `section'? After all this is *exactly* what
SRFI-26 does. Using terminology that is already in common use (Haskell)
is the obvious solution, IMHO)


felix