On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 09:55:22PM +0530, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
> 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' ;-) ?
You should use russian terminology. They use words Putin and getout.
> 
> Subbu
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