Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Mon Jan 19 12:07:07 PST 2009


== Quote from Michel Fortin (michel.fortin at michelf.com)'s article
> On 2009-01-18 10:21:55 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:
> > It's been there for a while now (since 25 Nov 2008).
> >
> > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/statement.html#ForeachStatement
> 	.next 	move the left edge of the range right one
> 	.retreat 	move the right edge of the range left one
> Each time I see this I get annoyed by the dissimilarity of the terms.
> "advance" and "retreat" would be much better words. Even if "advance"
> is three more characters, it carries much better the meaning of what is
> happening; "next" isn't even a verb.

advance/retreat or next/prev.  I use the latter in my own code, but
perhaps an abbreviation isn't appropriate here.


Sean





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