I don’t recall seeing these conversations, but I’d like to see something happen in that area. Really, I’d like an operator (e.g. …) in the standard library that would allow for
animals.uniqued()…(.init)
but even though that’s good for the general case, it doesn’t read as well as a method that performs a subset of such an operator’s job.
collect is better than toArray, because e.g. Array is to Sequence as String is to Substring. The method, which should be added to all applicable types, should have a universal name.
In the graphics world, we’d call this method baked.
In the audio world, frozen.
There are probably many others for other domains.
Is collect the domain-independent word for bake and freeze?