Please vote once and for good: range operations

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> That's a good point, but... we are at liberty to choose ANY names we 
>> please. Is this weird "first"/"next" combo our best shot?
> 
> 
> Has “current” been suggested?
> 
> How many terms are needed? Of the ordinals {first, previous, current, 
> next, last}, however they are named, are any not needed? Are any more 
> needed? randomth? nth?
> 
> —Joel Salomon
> 

Current and curr have been suggested. I was only looking at two terms 
for now, i.e. the front and back position in the range. "next" and 
"empty" remained less controversial and I was happy to reduce the scope 
of the vote.


Andrei