Design of intuitive interfaces

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Michel Fortin wrote:
>> On 2010-02-21 02:15:23 -0500, Norbert Nemec <Norbert at Nemec-online.de> 
>> said:
>>> similarly, I would suggest
>>>
>>> "reverse" to sort in-place
>>> "reversed" to return a modified copy
>>
>> I that's a not so bad solution, applicable to almost any word. There 
>> are cases where it doesn't work ('split'), but probably not too much.
> 
> "split" - to split in place
> "splat" - to return a modified copy

Just to clarify: there is some point being missed here. It's not about 
in-place vs. copy. Please check retro's documentation.

Andrei