Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

Yigal Chripun yigal100 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 18 13:43:30 PST 2009


Walter Bright wrote:
> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>> toe() ?! tail() good, rear() not so good, toe() sucks.
>
> tail() is no good because it has a well-established meaning in
> programming of being everything but the first element of a list. I just
> didn't like rear(), as it is not normally thought of as the opposite of
> head().

What was the reason for the use of body parts in the first place?
What's wrong with:
a) begin, end
b) start, finish
c) initial, final
d) first, last
etc...





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