On 2009-01-29 00:02:20 -0500, Bill Baxter <wbax...@gmail.com> said:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
That's a good point, but... we are at liberty to choose ANY names we please.
Is this weird "first"/"next" combo our best shot?
But unless you've got some new words to add, we've listed pretty much
every reasonable pair, and they all have issues of similar magnitude
(or at least which some fraction of people will declare is of similar
magnitude...)
I think "first/last" goes well with "advance/retreat".
Note how "advance" is a natural word in this context... quoted from the
"What's the deal with __buck?" thread, Andrei says: "Now consider I
want to advance 10 steps in that range."... yet, he wants to name the
function "next".
Not only that, but the word "advance" is used everywhere Andrei's
documentation for std.range, whenever it talks about "next"... some
quotes:
"isInputRange: r.next advances to the next element in the range."
"struct Radial(R): void next(); Range primitive operation that advances
the range to its next element.
This one's funny:
"Range drop(Range)(size_t n, Range r): Eagerly advances a copy of r n
times (by calling r.next n times)"
"struct SListRange(T,Topology topology = Topology.flexible): void
next(); Range primitive operation that advances the range to its next
element."
"struct Zip(R...): void next(); Advances to the next element in all
controlled ranges."
Unfortunately there is no definition for "retreat" to compare with.
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