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

Jb jb at nowhere.com
Thu May 17 11:13:44 PDT 2007


"Justin C Calvarese" <technocrat7 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:f2i4gg$5op$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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

4. reveach 





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