I thought this may interest some here :) some conc...

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[pablisco]

I thought this may interest some here :) some concepts can be confusing. Specially when you are used to their meaning in programming before learning English. I still remember the day I realized String comes from a "cord/rope" of characters 🤯
https://twitter.com/pablisc0/status/1222171540567085057

[Adam Powell]

and the metaphor goes deeper! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)

[arekolek]

honestly that coffee example just confused me more than I ever was about filter

[curioustechizen]

Initially I used to think the filter operation filters out rather than filter in.

So I used to think that the resulting collection will contain all items from the original except the ones that satisfy the filtering criteria.

🤷‍♂️

[uhe]

True. Should've called it keep and discard . 🙂

[pablisco]

@curioustechizen thank you, that's exactly what happened to me 😁

[Sam Schilling]

Coffee example didn’t make sense to me either until Kiran explained it, makes a lot of sense now

[Sam Schilling]

I guess I never thought of filter as removing the elements fitting the condition, though I can see how that could be confusing especially as a non-native English speaker.

[cedric]

I've never liked the name filter, which I still find confusing today since I'm never sure if it filters "in" or "out". I'd have preferred something like keep or keepIf