Christopher Wright 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.
it sounds stupid and is uninformative. for example,
auto cars = new BinaryTree!(Car)();
auto a = cars.toe;
auto b = cars.last;
now, reading the above, what's the toe of cars? that's just silly.
Does this make sense to English speakers? most likly. but for say,
chinese? I don't know.
instead of inveting terms than imply something based on some phrase that
not all non-native English speakers will recognize, it is far better to
just use the proper English term for the last item - "last". KISS solution.
