Idea: swap with multiple arguments

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/23/2016 01:27 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 5/23/16 4:01 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> So swap(a, b) swaps the contents of a and b. This could be easily
>> generalized to multiple arguments such that swap(a1, a2, ..., an)
>> arranges things such that a1 gets an, a2 gets a1, a3 gets a2, etc. I do
>> know applications for three arguments. Thoughts? -- Andrei
>
> One thing that screams out to me: this should be called rotate, not swap.
>
> -Steve

Yes, rotate(), but then I would never remember what direction it rotates.

Ali