Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

Christopher Wright dhasenan at gmail.com
Sun Jan 18 21:00:32 PST 2009


Walter Bright wrote:
> Yigal Chripun wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>>>> toe() ?! tail() good, rear() not so good, toe() sucks.
>>>
>>> tail() is no good because it has a well-established meaning in
>>> programming of being everything but the first element of a list. I just
>>> didn't like rear(), as it is not normally thought of as the opposite of
>>> head().
>>
>> What was the reason for the use of body parts in the first place?
>> What's wrong with:
>> a) begin, end
>> b) start, finish
>> c) initial, final
>> d) first, last
>> etc...
> 
> 
> There doesn't really need to be anything wrong with them. What's wrong 
> with head/toe?

It sounds stupid.



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