Re: Basic Properties of Lists ("foreward")

[Ed Falis <efalis@mediaone.net>]

Darren New wrote:


> 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.

I second that one.  If you can find a copy of Meyer's "Reusable 
Software", it's well worth a read (the syntax of Eiffel is pretty close 
to Ada and should present no particular problems).  The reason the book 
and the EiffelBase components are good is that they take a systematic 
approach to naming and organization of all the components in the 
library.  Since it uses multiple inheritance extensively (as is the 
Eiffel style), there are concepts that won't be directly applicable to 
an Ada style component library.  But there're still an awful lot of 
overlapping concepts there.  The whole library is very well thought out.

- Ed