Have you ever used "the" as a function or struct name? What was it meant for?

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I just wrote a function called the to extract properties from an object. So you can do object.property or the(property, object) in a partially-applied way: the(property)(object). Bad idea?

Edit: It works fine, but I’m wondering if a name like “the” should be saved for better purposes.

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You mean like a closure over getproperty?

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Yes. It works fine, but I’m wondering if a name like “the” should be saved for better purposes. I’ll add this explanation to my original post actually.

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fyi if you have not seen it, this kind of use is what Accessors.jl is intended for

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I hadn’t looked into it much. I might not use it for now because I don’t really need to “mutate” immutable structs for what I’m working on. But thanks for the pointer.