foreach_reverse is better than ever

torhu no at spam.invalid
Mon Feb 15 15:04:37 PST 2010


On 14.02.2010 11:12, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2/14/10 09:14, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>
>>  Though I must say that I find retro to be a bit funny. I would have expected
>>  it to be reverse. It would be clearer, I think, but it's not like it's hard
>>  to find out what retro does and remember it.
>>
>>  - Jonathan M Davis
>
> It iterates backwards, all the way back to the 50s. I think "reverse" is
> a much better word.


foreach (thing; backwards(lotsOfThings))
{

}


'backwards' would be fine by me.  But then I don't seem to iterate in 
reverse a whole lot, so it doesn't bother me that it's twice a long as 
'retro'.  Is that really a problem?



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