Re: List Strawman JC01

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

O.K. How about the "Red" end of the list and the "Blue" end of the list? :-)

To stick with a more Ada flavor: use of 'First and 'Last consistency is
good - as would be imitating Ada.Strings and having "type Direction is
(Forward, Backward);" (implying a 'Front and 'Back - of sorts). I'd
personally vote for a Front and Back as this would be consistent with what I
have usually seen with double-ended lists & could be made consistent with
Ada.Strings.

Or we could see what kinds of names have been given to such things in other
libraries & be consistent with common usage if such exists. Or perhaps some
of the academics can let us know if there is a consistent usage in Data
Structures books?

MDC
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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>
> Quite True. But you can find the ends, and we do have to arbitrarily label
each
> end *something*. We just have to find nice linear but direction-neutral
> somethings to name them.
>