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in reply to Want for a name?

I really thought that lisp or scala or Haskell or similar would have already have a well-known name for this, but apparently not.

Of the names posted in this thread, the top 8 below are my preferences in roughly descending order of preference. Any good reasoning for or against any of those?

adjoin overlaps mapAdj moving rolling automap map_adjacent between slide pipeline stitch running MAPACDR map_right_neighbour map_rpair map_look_ahead maprange n-map-plus npmap nwindowmap nslicemap splicemap between_pairs forByTwo friends, neighbors, friendwise bubblemap

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