Luckily we have the word "de-duplication" to refer to this concept that
we're trying to find a word for.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Bryant [mailto:jay(_at_)bryantcs(_dot_)com]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:41 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] De-Duplification revisited (Was: Re: [xsl]
What is a better word for "de-duplication"?)
My grandfather (a farmer) used to refer to the heart of a
kernel of corn
(maize) as the nub, so nubbing something would be getting to
its heart. He
referred to an ear of corn that didn't fully form as a nubbin, too.
But is getting to something's heart the same as de-duplicating it?
Is reducing <outer><inner></outer> to <inner> the same as reducing
<inner><inner> to <inner>?
I'm not trying to throw rocks at your idea. I would also like
to find (or
invent) a word for de-duplication, but "nub" (and hence "nubbing" and
"nubbed") doesn't strike me as the right word. It's closer
than our earlier
ideas, but it doesn't give me that "aha! that's it!" feeling.
Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 6:07 PM
Subject: [xsl] De-Duplification revisited (Was: Re: [xsl]
What is a better
word for "de-duplication"?)
Reflecting on the recent discussion on finding a better word for
"de-duplication" and in particular for "de-duplicated", here is what
name is used in Haskell:
nub
Here's the definition from the List.hs library module:
nub :: (Eq a) => [a] -> [a]
nub = nubBy (==)
nubBy :: (a -> a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a]
nubBy eq [] = []
nubBy eq (x:xs) = x : nubBy eq (filter (\y -> not
(eq x y)) xs)
So, in Haskellese, de-duplicated will be just "nubbed".
From dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nub) :
4 results for: nub
-noun 1. the point, gist, or heart of something.
To summarize, the best word for de-duplicate that I've
found up to now
is the word "nub".
I hope that if in case we cannot come with a better word, we will at
least use the word "nub"
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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