Re: List Strawman JC01

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <9v2ldc$m67$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>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.

Well, again that would only be consistent with arrays, which have an ordering
defined. If there was a possibility of this becoming a built-in type, where
'First and 'Last might actually be made to apply, then I'd find this a
convincing argument for conveience sake. But as it is, I'd prefer to stick to a
a more neutral naming.

The current package uses "type Direction" for accessing the ends, so there is no
issue of using different names for that purpose unless you also want to quit
doing things this way.

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