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Re: [xsl] De-Duplification revisited (Was: Re: [xsl] What is a better word for "de-duplication"?)


Subject: Re: [xsl] De-Duplification revisited (Was: Re: [xsl] What is a better word for "de-duplication"?)
From: Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:25:02 +0200

Dimitre Novatchev wrote:

nubBy :: (a -> a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a]

nubBy? Nubby? Then theres nubbily, too, right? So, the nubbed nubby dups where nubbily dedupped?


To summarize, the best word for de-duplicate that I've found up to now is the word "nub".

I like it. Not to be confused with nubbly (hard to digest) and nubble (unmatured maize-ear)


-- Abel Braaksma


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