Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2009-01-18 10:21:55 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:
> 
>> It's been there for a while now (since 25 Nov 2008).
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/statement.html#ForeachStatement
> 
>     .next     move the left edge of the range right one
>     .retreat     move the right edge of the range left one
> 
> Each time I see this I get annoyed by the dissimilarity of the terms. 
> "advance" and "retreat" would be much better words. Even if "advance" is 
> three more characters, it carries much better the meaning of what is 
> happening; "next" isn't even a verb.

I understand. Next was rather consecrated so we used that one. "Toe" 
comes from the "head to toe" phrase; "tail" would have been nice but its 
meaning in all other languages is "everything but the head".

At the highest level, any nomenclature cannot please everybody.


Andrei