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In article <3BF29600.E83E0652@boeing.com>, Jeffrey Carter says...
>Lists don't have Push and Pop operations. Those are stack operations. If
>something like
>
>Insert (Item => Thing, Into => List, Before => First (List) );
>
>is so common you think you need a special operation for it, then they
>should probably be called Insert_As_First, Append_As_Last, and so on.

I see where you are comming from, and I'm not overly enamoured of using stack
terms for a general list either. But I don't think Insert_As_First and
Append_As_Last are better names.

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