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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: What does zip mean?
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:04:30 +1300
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Grant Edwards wrote:

> What the zipper on a coat does is convert two separate sequences into
> a single sequence where the members alternate between the two input
> sequences.

True, the zipper analogy isn't quite accurate. It's
hard to think of an equally concise and suggestive
name, however.

-- 
Greg