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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