I've read any number of peeves against certain forms of language use, and don't agree that that necessarily pigeonholes someone into marketing.
Lisp, for example, uses 'car' and 'cdr' because of the hardware registers of the IBM 704. Some prefer 'first' and 'rest', but compact composed versions like '(cadr x)' for (car (cdr x)) don't exist for those English variants.
"to curry" as a verb has advantages over your preferred term of "argument deferral", if only because I can write:
def curry(f, *curry_args):
def curried(*args):
return f(curry_args + args)
curried.__name__ = "curried_" + f.__name
return curried
using a one word function name instead of "argument_deferral". (I've also seen 'xapply' in Python code, as in
http://bytecodehacks.sourceforge.net/bch-docs/bch/module-byt... ).
It also has the inverse 'uncurry', mentioned in https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/6.12.2/docs/html/librarie... .
Your version would be "undefer the argument deferred function", I believe, vs. "uncurry the curried function". Not only is it longer, but I see a possible ambiguity: "undefer" might mean to actually call it.
In general though, there is a lot of specialized vocabulary. "A trampoline is a loop that iteratively invokes thunk-returning functions". "I used an AVL tree in the hidden Markov model." I don't see how the big problem is the inability to understand the concept from lexical decomposition of the term.
Lisp, for example, uses 'car' and 'cdr' because of the hardware registers of the IBM 704. Some prefer 'first' and 'rest', but compact composed versions like '(cadr x)' for (car (cdr x)) don't exist for those English variants.
"to curry" as a verb has advantages over your preferred term of "argument deferral", if only because I can write:
using a one word function name instead of "argument_deferral". (I've also seen 'xapply' in Python code, as in http://bytecodehacks.sourceforge.net/bch-docs/bch/module-byt... ).It also has the inverse 'uncurry', mentioned in https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/6.12.2/docs/html/librarie... .
Your version would be "undefer the argument deferred function", I believe, vs. "uncurry the curried function". Not only is it longer, but I see a possible ambiguity: "undefer" might mean to actually call it.
In general though, there is a lot of specialized vocabulary. "A trampoline is a loop that iteratively invokes thunk-returning functions". "I used an AVL tree in the hidden Markov model." I don't see how the big problem is the inability to understand the concept from lexical decomposition of the term.