merge (Re: zip or marry etc)

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <slrn8nd7s8.gtf.scarblac-spamtrap at flits104-37.flits.rug.nl>,
Remco Gerlich <scarblac-rt at pino.selwerd.nl> wrote:
>Aahz Maruch wrote in comp.lang.python:
>>
>> I think I was insufficiently clear: in addition to "zip" having a known
>> meaning, it does not have any connotation in computer terms of combining
>> data that I've ever seen.  Yeah, if you want to call it "zipper", I
>> might almost see your point.
>
>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....
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