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I was at that same Wikipedia article, but I got there from the "Functor" disambiguation page. I assumed that "function object" was a synonym for "functor" within the context of those listed languages. Perhaps that assumption was wrong on my part... Your point about chronology is noted. I have no rebuttal. > What do you suggest Haskell users should do? Stop calling functors functors? Sheepishly demure and say "okay you're right, we're wrong" when someone says that functors are how C++ does them? Stop saying "we're right, you're wrong" when someone says functors are how C++ does them. Accept that C++, C#, Java, and the Gang of Four can use the term to mean what they mean without them being wrong. Ideally, recognize that, within the wider world of programming, the FP use of the term is the minority, and so some effort at translation to the majority terms may be appropriate. That said, I'm well aware that I'm talking to the wrong person. Comments of the type that I'm complaining about occur on HN, but I don't think they come from you. The only quarrel I could pick with what you said was your original comment, when you faulted C++ for not adapting the term from category theory. I had my timeline wrong in my first reply to you, but I still think that, since the roots of C++ are very far from category theory, expecting it to go there to find its terminology is a bit unfair. |