On 15/02/2010 15:00, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2/14/10 18:18, 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 <d...@me.com> 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
I never understood the reason for that the names need to be short. I
think the most important thing is that the names are clear. Just look at
the C standard library, it's horrible, almost every name is an
abbreviation of some kind.
C was designed in the dark ages when programmers actually tried to save
bytes in their extremely limited hardware. That same age brought us the
tab character, Y2k bug and FORTRAN.
