From: Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Basic Properties of Lists ("foreward")
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:59:46 GMT
Date: 2001-12-11T16:59:46+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C163B65.E2C30102@san.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1008075782.18312.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Mike Brenner wrote:
> "Foreword" is a wonderful example of ambiguity in the English language. It seems to be saying "towards the fore or front", but it sometimes means "from the fore or front".
Actually, I still recommend the terminology from the EiffelBase
(www.eiffel.com) libraries. "Forth" and "Back", as in back and forth,
are the directions for one-dimensional traversal. There's a ton of good
terminology there.
> It is similar to situations like "is a North wind coming from the North or going towards the North", and is an inflammable pyjama "un-flame-able or is it enflame-able"?
Worse. One means it will catch on fire, and the other means it will
explode. (Inflamable and imflamable, that is.)
--
Darren New
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2001-12-11 13:02 Basic Properties of Lists ("foreward") Mike Brenner
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