value versus evaluate

[juliohm]

Various other packages in the ecosystem adopt evaluate(obj, x, y) to produce the value. For example, evaluate(Euclidean(), rand(3), rand(3)) from Distances.jl works that way.

Can we perhaps rename value for loss functions to evaluate for consistency across the ecosystem? Or perhaps add the evaluate alongside value one pointing to the other as synonyms?

[juliohm]

After taking a closer look in the source, evaluate doesn't seem very natural. The name value is ok.