merge (Re: zip or marry etc)

[Robin Becker]

In article <8l6vc5$c07$1 at slb6.atl.mindspring.net>, Aahz Maruch
<aahz at netcom.com> writes
...
>>The function zip as proposed (combine two lists into a list of pairs)
>>is straight from Haskell (and other functional languages) just like map
>>and filter. I think zip is the obvious name.
>
>Ah.  Hmmmm....  Well, then, I guess I withdraw my objections to zip.
>I'd still prefer something else, but....
...
so are we saying that the almost unknown language Haskell has the
correct semantics for this; zip has at least three common usages other
than of zip fastener meaning (interlace).
-- 
Robin Becker