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From: "Mark Lundquist" <mlundquist2@attbi.com>
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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>
> So really the lynchpin in your argument here is that we change our
terminology
> from talking about "Front" and "Back" to "First" and "Last". This way we
> arbitrarily assign a direction to what is otherwise a directionless data
> structure, and then terms that rely on the notion of progressing suddenly
make
> sense.
>
> I don't think I'd be in favor of that, because that lack of direction is
really
> an integral part of a (doubly-linked) list, and I don't see directionality
> gaining us a great deal of anything for the loss of flexability.

How does a choice of terminology result in more or less flexibility?

-- mark