From: Kevin <darkintent@...>
Date: 2011-02-02T15:07:43+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the reason behind Array#zip's name?

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Haskell happened to be the second place I have seen this particular function
as well.  What you said makes lots of sense.

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net> wrote:

> On 02/01/2011 11:54 PM, Kevin wrote:
> > I'm just curious I know that Array#zip generates a new array from
> arguments
> > passed to it.  What I don't get is why it is called zip.  Is it because
> of
> > how the results are computed into the new array?
>
> I think it's inherited from a similarly named function that carries out
> the same operation in some functional programming languages.  I remember
> first being introduced to it in Haskel, but I'm sure it's been around
> longer.
>
> In any case, you can think of the basic operation of zip as being like a
> zipper, linking pairs of elements together at the same index in each
> array.  The arrays have been zipped together.  This has been generalized
> for n arrays, but the concept is the same.
>
> -Jeremy
>
>

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