Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Sun Jan 18 18:05:07 PST 2009
Yigal Chripun wrote:
> 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...
There doesn't really need to be anything wrong with them. What's wrong
with head/toe?
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