Revised RFC on range design for D2

[Bill Baxter]

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aft
The opposite of aft is forward, pronounced "forrard" for some reason.
Not good I think.

I see nothing wrong with head/foot.
There's "head of a bed / foot of a bed" so it is not the case that
these words always refer to people or that
there's always more than one foot.

---bb

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Pablo Ripolles <in-call at gmx.net> wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
>
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
>> > <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> >> Pablo Ripolles wrote:
>> >>> What about "isDone"?
>> >> isDone is great, I just wanted to keep the one-word streak going. Let's see
>> >> what everyone else says.
>> >
>> > Hmm.  std.algorithm does have an "isSorted" function.  So I guess I
>> > agree it would be more consistent if you call it isDone or isEmpty.
>> >
>> > Or rename "isSorted" to "sorted".  :-)  But then you have to face the
>> > consequences later when you want to have a predicate that is ambiguous
>> > without the "is".    Probably a lot of noun predicates are in that
>> > category -- i.e. checking  isSomeNoun(x).  Like "isRange(x)" to see if
>> > x is a range.  That would have to just become "range(x)" which is a
>> > bit ambiguous.
>> >
>> > So I agree. Stick the "is" in there.
>>
>> Thing is, people will call isSorted much less often than (isD|d)one. In
>> std.algorithm clearly the one-word paradigm can't scale. But for a
>> handful of heavily-used names I'd be willing to take the Pepsi challenge.
>>
>> Andrei
>>
>> P.S. The more I think of it, the more I like "tip" of the range. Short,
>> poignant, easy to remember. Not pressing the red button just yet.
>
> A perhaps more aeronautical term but short and nice as an alternative to "tip" might be "aft".
>
> So, what about "aft" instead of "tip"?
>
> "head"/"aft" it's not that bad, is it?
>
> Cheers!
>