On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Christopher Wright <[email protected]> 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
