Re: pull & put (Was: Angle quotes and pointy brackets)

[Rod Adams]

Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

Yes.  C<unshift> is a terrible name; when teaching Perl I feel
embarrassed on introducing it.
   

C<unshift>'s only virtue, IMHO, is that it's clearly the inverse of
C<shift>.  But I think the spelling and aural relationship between
C<push>, C<pop>, C<pull>, and C<put> is clear enough to negate that.
But then, I'm a little biased.
Except that push and pull are logical opposites linguistically, but not 
in standard CS parlance. could be very confusing.

There's a possibility of using C<enq> and C<deq> for enqueue/dequeue, 
except that C<deq> == C<pop> in standard implementations.

So C<enq> and C<shift>? yeck.
-- Rod Adams