Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

[John Reimer]

Hello Christopher,

> 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.
> 


I agree that its ugly.  Although, be prepared to see it turn into just another 
feature that we're going to have to get used to. :)


-JJR