Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

[Michel Fortin]

On 2009-01-18 16:43:30 -0500, Yigal Chripun <yigal100 at gmail.com> said:

> 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...

e) front, back.

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