Revised RFC on range design for D2

Bill Baxter wbaxter at gmail.com
Sun Sep 14 14:17:05 PDT 2008


On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Pablo Ripolles <in-call at gmx.net> wrote:
> Michel Fortin Wrote:
>
>> On 2008-09-13 04:18:20 -0400, Pablo Ripolles <in-call at gmx.net> said:
>>
>> > After having had some sleep, I kind of support Bill's proposal, that
>> > is, head/foot, definitely better than head/toe.  It's like the header
>> > and the footer! sounds very reasonable.  Of course I also like
>> > fore/aft, but thats because my aeronautical engineering bias.
>> >
>> > tip is too ambiguous.
>> >
>> > tail refers to all what comes after the head, not to its tip.
>> >
>> > Cheers!
>>
>> Anyone suggested head/rear yet?
>
> Hello, if I remember well, yes.  I also like it!  I don't recall the argument against it though...

I think it was that if you're thinking body parts, then "rear" means
someone's bottom.  There's an expression -- "get your head out of your
rear" -- that comes to mind.

--bb


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