#byname

Hægtes: one of Hild’s bynames

Over on my research blog, a long chewy post about how I researched one of Hild’s first bynames, hægtes. And then how I figured out how to depict one.

Scala has lots of features and one of the features always confused me called “pass-by-name” argument.  For me pass by name is same as “higher-order-function” but different from just syntax otherwise everything is same. While googling out for their difference, I found:

Pass-by-name is lazy evaluation but higher-order-functions are eager.

Pass-by-name is used for constructs custom controls.

and…

The Language Nerd gets into the history of last names.

Dear Language Nerd,

I know a bunch of people with the last names Blue, Brown, or White, but outside of Reservoir Dogs I never heard of a Mr. Pink or Mr. Orange. Why are some colors normal names and others not?

-Freddy Fuchsia (I wish)

***

Dear Rainbow Authority,

To really explain this, I gotta get into where last names in general come from. Which is fortunately hella interesting, so yeah, let’s…