On Wednesday 09 Nov 2011 12:43:00 PM Dan Amelang wrote:
> "Input prefixing" is what I call this pushing of data onto the input
> stream, though I'm not set on that term. You used the term "pushback",
> which I like, but the problem is that we're pushing onto the front
> of the input stream, and "pushfront" just doesn't have the same ring
I thought 'pushback' means 'push back into', so if you have a input stream,
abcdefgh ---->
and you read in 'h' and then 'g', you could push 'g' back into the input
stream for later processing. I suppose one could also 'putback' g into the
input stream.
But then many computer terms border on the weird :-). I can understand
'output' and something that one 'puts out' but then what is 'input'? If it is
something one 'gets in', shouldn't it have been 'inget' ;-) ?
Subbu
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