1 year ago
#106818
Jonathan Lam
Canonical name for Iseq from "Implementing Functional Languages: a tutorial"
In Simon Peyton Jones's "Implementing Functional Languages: a tutorial", a data structure for efficient string building called Iseq
, also referred to as iseq
and iseqRep
. This can be found by searching through the document.
Is this Iseq
name a canonical abbrevation for something? What does the "i" prefix refer to? I'm wondering this because I wonder if this is more widely used, and I can't find it anywhere in the literature.
I've been looking elsewhere for anything with the name, and the only eponymous structure is Clojure's ISeq
, which is a very different thing. The two best guesses I have at the moment are:
- The "i" was completely arbitrary, and used as a prefix to identify all related functions.
- The "i" might stand for "indented sequence"? This is pretty much the only "i" that I could think of.
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