Ideas for shortening "foreach_reverse" (was Re: I have a suggestion.)

Sean Kelly sean at f4.ca
Thu May 17 10:58:36 PDT 2007


Justin C Calvarese 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 agree that foreach_reverse is way too long for a keyword. Also, it has 
> that unslightly underscore.
> 
> I think that frr is a little too short. Since it's a keyword that will 
> be rarely used, newcomers to D will likely get confused.
> 
> I'm "voting" for foreachrev, but here's a whole list of decent 
> alternatives to the current "foreach_reverse" mess:
> 
> 1. foreachrev
> 2. rforeach
> 3. revforeach

I still like:

foreach - unordered?
foreach(fwd) - explicitly forward
foreach(rev) - explicitly reverse
foreach(any) - unordered


Sean



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