Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Michel Fortin, el 14 de febrero a las 07:48 me escribiste:
On 2010-02-14 05:12:41 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> said:
It iterates backwards, all the way back to the 50s. I think
"reverse" is a much better word.
Agree.
My dictionary says: "retro": imitative of a style, fashion, or
design from the recent past.
It's an amusing name in the way Andrei likes it, but the meaning
isn't very clear. "reverse" would be a better name.
This is a pattern in Andrei, which I think it really hurts the language
(the names are very clever and funny, but that shouldn't be the point of
a name, a name should be clear).
At least in this case being funny was not the point. I needed a name
that was (a) short, (b) different from "reverse", (c) memorable. It is
understood that other paint colors are available, but please don't
forget to give a little love to the painter. :o) It would be of course
best if names that arguably hurt the language were changed, so please
compile a list.
Andrei
How about
esrever
with credit for original idea going to highly creative Unix
script language designers as in
if
...
fi
esrever has attributes (b) and (c) (definitely memorable).
(a), well no, arguably it's not short. so I guess it really
is a no brainer, then. How about
ver
)-: nitsuJ
