On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:33:24 -0700, Dan Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If there's a willingness to rename shift/unshift, why not consider > going a bit further (and offend shell heritage) to note that pull/put > aren't really linguistically opposed either (unlike push/pull). Why not > rename pop to pull, and use something like put/take for shift/unshift?
That goes way beyond offending "shell heritage". That actively opposes sixty years of computer science terminology setting "push" and "pop" in opposition. (Well, maybe not *sixty* years, but you get the idea.) -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perl and Parrot hacker "I might be an idiot, but not a stupid one." --c.l.p.misc (name omitted to protect the foolish)