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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: List container strawman 1.2
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Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <3BF27410.C899A16B@brighton.ac.uk>, John English says...
> >My vote also goes to First and Last. Apart from anything else, the
> >names are then consistent with the corresponding array attributes,
> >and consistency is a Good Thing IMHO.
> 
> Are you saying First and List just for the "Position", or for that and for the
> Push and Pop routines too?

Lists don't have Push and Pop operations. Those are stack operations. If
something like

Insert (Item => Thing, Into => List, Before => First (List) );

is so common you think you need a special operation for it, then they
should probably be called Insert_As_First, Append_As_Last, and so on.

-- 
Jeffrey Carter