I have a suggestion.

[Bastiaan Veelo]

Well there is one that is
- no longer than "foreach"
- not a concatenation of words
- not an abbreviation
- rather illustrative

"hcaerof"

...It is also cryptic - you can't please everyone.

Just kidding.
Bastiaan.


Brian Byrne wrote:
> YonggangLuo wrote:
>> i think it's will be a good idea to replace "foreach_reverse" with  
>> "frr".
>> "foreach_reverse" is too long as a keyword
> 
> I tend to side on being explicit, so I don't think "frr" would be that 
> great of a name change. But I will agree that foreach_reverse looks 
> fairly ugly (more than a keyword should).
> 
> Anyways, along your lines I think "fer" (ForEachReverse) would be a more 
> appropriate abbreviation. I can give it association to hillbilly speech, 
> "Fer dat dem dere list [insert mental image of a scraggly old man in 
> overalls holding a list upside-down]..."
> 
> More seriously, I think a better keyword would be rforeach, revforeach, 
> or something similarly parallel. Something about reading underscores in 
> keywords (*cough* C++) makes me cringe at the sight.
> 
> Brian Byrne