Design of intuitive interfaces

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:21:29 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Michel Fortin wrote:
>>> On 2010-02-21 02:15:23 -0500, Norbert Nemec <Norbert at Nemec-online.de>  
>>> said:
>>>> similarly, I would suggest
>>>>
>>>> "reverse" to sort in-place
>>>> "reversed" to return a modified copy
>>>
>>> I that's a not so bad solution, applicable to almost any word. There  
>>> are cases where it doesn't work ('split'), but probably not too much.
>>  "split" - to split in place
>> "splat" - to return a modified copy
>
> Just to clarify: there is some point being missed here. It's not about  
> in-place vs. copy. Please check retro's documentation.

By copy he means it doesn't affect the original.  Retro returns a  
"virtual" copy :)

-Steve