Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

Lars Ivar Igesund larsivar at igesund.net
Tue Jan 20 09:50:23 PST 2009


Christopher Wright wrote:

> 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.

Wholeheartedly agree.

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