Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

[Bill Baxter]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Christopher Wright <dhasenan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> It sounds stupid.

Here's from the previous discussion:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announce/Re_Revised_RFC_on_range_design_for_D2_13303.html

I think toe sounds fine.  I'm just glad 'tip' was abandoned in favor of 'head'.

--bb