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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:34:13 -0400
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From: arodl...@entermail.net (Andrew Rodland)

On Monday 04 April 2005 06:34 pm, Juerd wrote:
> Terrence Brannon skribis 2005-04-04 18:45 (+0000):
> > So, to avoid confusion with the common understanding of flattening in
> > Perl, perhaps it should be called spreading or distributing.
>
> I agree.
>
> Likewise, "slurping" is probably best explained as collecting.

I like this. I'd be tempted to suggest "scatter" / "gather", but that's 
probably a bit opaque to the average reader. How about describing them as 
"expand" / "collect" for a matched pair? That's got a legacy in math, and 
some mathematically-oriented languages.

Andrew