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2016-07-21
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ghadi01:07:19

just had a thought… specter is vim navigation commands for datastructures

nathanmarz14:07:58

@ghadi: don't know vim, care to elaborate?

ghadi14:07:56

sure, mutation commands for text are usually preceded by giving a direction. ex:

ghadi14:07:57

or succeeded in this case: d$ means delete from current position to the end of the line dfi means delete from current position to the first i character to the right d4k means delete 4 lines upwards

ghadi14:07:14

and then you have fancy stuff like this, which reminds me of transform ALL:

ghadi14:07:56

basically a functor

nathanmarz14:07:47

oh wow, cool

ghadi14:07:55

in text your navigation commands are 2D. in datastructures, your navigation is structural

ghadi14:07:52

there’s a parallel for sure

nathanmarz14:07:07

the more tangible metaphors to explain specter the better 🙂