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My grandfather (a farmer) used to refer to the heart of a kernel of corn
(maize) as the nub, so nubbing something would be getting to its heart. He
referred to an ear of corn that didn't fully form as a nubbin, too.
But is getting to something's heart the same as de-duplicating it? Is reducing <outer><inner></outer> to <inner> the same as reducing <inner><inner> to <inner>? I'm not trying to throw rocks at your idea. I would also like to find (or invent) a word for de-duplication, but "nub" (and hence "nubbing" and "nubbed") doesn't strike me as the right word. It's closer than our earlier ideas, but it doesn't give me that "aha! that's it!" feeling. Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 6:07 PM Subject: De-Duplification revisited (Was: Re: What is a better word for "de-duplication"?) Reflecting on the recent discussion on finding a better word for "de-duplication" and in particular for "de-duplicated", here is what name is used in Haskell:
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