> Le 2 juil. 2019 à 20:29, Pete Helgren <pete@valadd.com> a écrit :
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> As a more casual Java programmer, the "where" option is much clearer to me. I spend more
time using FM syntax than changing the Java underneath, so from a "fading memory" standpoint,
"where" would lead to fewer "What the....?" moments, for me at least.
I prefer « where » for the reasons Daniel mentioned, also SQL uses WHERE.
I think SQL has as many users as Javascript, no?
— Denis.
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> On 7/2/2019 2:08 PM, Christoph Rüger wrote:
>> Good point. Seems you are not the first ones stumbling on that one.
>> I quickly searched around and found:
>>
>> Similar question on SO:
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45939202/filter-naming-convention
>> Javascript: filter :
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/filter
>> Spark SQL -> "where" is an alias for "filter":
>> https://stackoverflow.com/a/33887122/135535
>> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33885979/difference-between-filter-and-where-in-scala-spark-sql>
>> -> search for "filter" or "where" on
>> https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.5.2/api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame
>> R Statistics Language : filter
>> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dplyr/vignettes/dplyr.html#filter-rows-with-filter
>>
>> Python: filter https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/filter-in-python/
>> Ruby: they use select:
>> https://www.codementor.io/tips/8247613177/how-to-filter-arrays-of-data-in-ruby
>> Kotlin: filter:
>> https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.collections/filter.html
>>
>> This languages rank in the upper area of the Stackoverflow survey:
>> https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages
>>
>> I agree that "where" reads pretty nice. I like it. But "filter" seems to be
>> found in multiple common languages supporting lambdaish syntax.
>> Python and R is especially common in the data science / statistics
>> community, which are different target group than e.g. Java-Programmers.
>> Also web-developers these days are doing lots of javascript to build "html"
>> websites / templates - and javascript also uses "filter".
>>
>> My vote would still go for "filter", because I think we are working on
>> lists of objects and objects are closer to "programming" than to "sql".
>> Maybe the "where"-alias would be a compromise - but might also be confusing
>> two have both.
>>
>> What do others think?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Christoph
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>> Am Di., 2. Juli 2019 um 20:27 Uhr schrieb Daniel Dekany <ddekany@apache.org
>>> :
>>> I wonder if "filter" is a good name. For Java 8 programmers it's
>>> given, but otherwise I find it confusing, as it's not clear if you
>>> specify what to filter out, or what to keep. Worse, I believe in every
>>> day English "foo filter" or "filters foo" means removing foo-s because
>>> you don't want them, which is just the opposite of the meaning in
>>> Java. So I think "where", which is familiar for many from SQL (for
>>> most Java programmers as well, but also for non-Java programmers),
>>> would be better. Consider:
>>>
>>> users?filter(user -> user.inactive)
>>>
>>> VS
>>>
>>> users?where(user -> user.inactive)
>>>
>>> The first can be easily misunderstood as removing the inactive users,
>>> while the meaning of the second is obvious.
>>>
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