Design of intuitive interfaces
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 22 04:41:45 PST 2010
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:21:29 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> 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.
By copy he means it doesn't affect the original. Retro returns a
"virtual" copy :)
-Steve
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