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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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In article <3C15337C.644622CC@boeing.com>, Jeffrey Carter says...
>
>Ted Dennison wrote:
>> 
>> How about we use "Head" and "Tail" for terminology? In the final analysis I
..
>Head and Tail are OK. I'm primarily interested in being able to say
>things like
>
>the list is sorted in ascending order
>
>without adding confusing terminology about the direction of traversal
>needed to observe this property; Head -> Tail is implied. Saying the

OK. To me, it would still be unclear. But if this terminology works for both of
us, then that's what we are shooting for. 

Does anyone have a big problem with "Head" and "Tail"?

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