RFC on range design for D2

Leandro Lucarella llucax at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 08:09:59 PDT 2008


Andrei Alexandrescu, el  9 de septiembre a las 09:50 me escribiste:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> >Andrei Alexandrescu, el  8 de septiembre a las 22:43 me escribiste:
> >>I like the alternate names quite some. One thing, however, is that head
> >>and rear are not near-antonyms (which ideally they should be). Maybe
> >>front and rear would be an improvement. (STL uses front and back). Also,
> >What about head/tail? You certainly won't confuse STL refugees and
> >functional guys will be at home ;)
> 
> You'll sure confuse the latter. To them, tail is everything except the head, 
> e.g. a[1 .. $].

You are right =/

Anyway, I think it better to confuse some other language guys than
compromising D's readability...

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