On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 6:09 PM Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 4:52 PM Ravi Krishna <s_ravikrishna@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> on a diff note, is the word memoize inspired from Perl Module memoize
>> which use to do the same thing.
> It is a general functional programming concept - not sure on the history
> but probably academic and thus Perl and others picked it up "from the
> source".
Looks to me like you suggested our use of the terminology:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAKFQuwZQmCNyS_Vv2Jf3TNe7wRTiptWNs7xkgU%3DAEdqthkQe9A%40mail.gmail.com#bbcd739c97e28b17ef2e111be8cf214b
Yeah, I just don't remember which book on functional programming (probably _javascript_ oriented though) I learned about it in.
David J.
