foreach_reverse is better than ever

Yigal Chripun yigal100 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 12:35:04 PST 2010


On 15/02/2010 15:00, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2/14/10 18:18, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>>> 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).
>>
>> At least in this case being funny was not the point. I needed a name
>> that was (a) short, (b) different from "reverse", (c) memorable. It is
>> understood that other paint colors are available, but please don't
>> forget to give a little love to the painter. :o) It would be of course
>> best if names that arguably hurt the language were changed, so please
>> compile a list.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> I never understood the reason for that the names need to be short. I
> think the most important thing is that the names are clear. Just look at
> the C standard library, it's horrible, almost every name is an
> abbreviation of some kind.

C was designed in the dark ages when programmers actually tried to save 
bytes in their extremely limited hardware. That same age brought us the 
tab character, Y2k bug and FORTRAN.



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