foreach_reverse is better than ever

Leandro Lucarella llucax at gmail.com
Sun Feb 14 08:16:31 PST 2010


Michel Fortin, el 14 de febrero a las 07:48 me escribiste:
> On 2010-02-14 05:12:41 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> said:
> 
> >It iterates backwards, all the way back to the 50s. I think
> >"reverse" is a much better word.
> 
> Agree.
> 
> My dictionary says: "retro": imitative of a style, fashion, or
> design from the recent past.
> 
> It's an amusing name in the way Andrei likes it, but the meaning
> isn't very clear. "reverse" would be a better name.

This is a pattern in Andrei, which I think it really hurts the language
(the names are very clever and funny, but that shouldn't be the point of
a name, a name should be clear).

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