Revised RFC on range design for D2

[Pablo Ripolles]

Bill Baxter Wrote:

> According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aft
> The opposite of aft is forward, pronounced "forrard" for some reason.
> Not good I think.

Well, those are the adjective forms.  I was thinking about the aft of an airplane...

> 
> I see nothing wrong with head/foot.
> There's "head of a bed / foot of a bed" so it is not the case that
> these words always refer to people or that
> there's always more than one foot.

Ok, that sounds more convincing than "head"/"toe", that's for sure.

> 
> ---bb
> 
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Pablo Ripolles <in-call at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
> >
> >> Bill Baxter wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
> >> > <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> >> >> Pablo Ripolles wrote:
> >> >>> What about "isDone"?
> >> >> isDone is great, I just wanted to keep the one-word streak going. Let's see
> >> >> what everyone else says.
> >> >
> >> > Hmm.  std.algorithm does have an "isSorted" function.  So I guess I
> >> > agree it would be more consistent if you call it isDone or isEmpty.
> >> >
> >> > Or rename "isSorted" to "sorted".  :-)  But then you have to face the
> >> > consequences later when you want to have a predicate that is ambiguous
> >> > without the "is".    Probably a lot of noun predicates are in that
> >> > category -- i.e. checking  isSomeNoun(x).  Like "isRange(x)" to see if
> >> > x is a range.  That would have to just become "range(x)" which is a
> >> > bit ambiguous.
> >> >
> >> > So I agree. Stick the "is" in there.
> >>
> >> Thing is, people will call isSorted much less often than (isD|d)one. In
> >> std.algorithm clearly the one-word paradigm can't scale. But for a
> >> handful of heavily-used names I'd be willing to take the Pepsi challenge.
> >>
> >> Andrei
> >>
> >> P.S. The more I think of it, the more I like "tip" of the range. Short,
> >> poignant, easy to remember. Not pressing the red button just yet.
> >
> > A perhaps more aeronautical term but short and nice as an alternative to "tip" might be "aft".
> >
> > So, what about "aft" instead of "tip"?
> >
> > "head"/"aft" it's not that bad, is it?
> >
> > Cheers!
> >