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Revisit the name 'Generator'

Open marcoct opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

This conflicts with the usage in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator_(computer_programming). This confusion actually visibly arose once during the summer school.

marcoct avatar Aug 10 '17 03:08 marcoct

Also coincides with a previous use of "generator" in bayeslite (now known as an analysis schema), which users, even those familiar with probabilistic modeling and inference, found as a confusing notion:

https://github.com/probcomp/bayeslite/blob/1566fd91bd74e81d497d715c1a6fd44b23926424/src/metamodel.py#L118

fsaad avatar Aug 10 '17 13:08 fsaad