foreach_reverse is better than ever

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sun Feb 14 12:43:04 PST 2010


Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
> news:hl9ipc$26r1$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>> I don't mind "reversed" but it's longer than "retro" and the convention
>>> doesn't scale. For example, both active and passive forms of "split"
>>> look the same.
>> For me "retro" is acceptable. I don't love "iota" but I can accept it too. 
>> Other names of Phobos2 can be improved.
>>
> 
> I can be happy with either 'retro' or 'reverse'. My feeling on 'iota' used 
> to be "It's not great, but I'm fine with it". But now I can't remember what 
> the hell it does; no idea. The only things that come to mind are "Dyslexic 
> Integer to ASCII conversion", and Futurama's "Tiny Iota? I could never be as 
> good as him. He was a great Blurnsball player."

retro does have something going for it that iota doesn't. Everybody I 
talked to who saw "retro" in my article on ranges knew immediately what 
it does, and furthermore remembered the name later.

Andrei



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