Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> first/last - 13: Jarrett, Bill, dsimcha, Sandeep, Chad, Tiago, Robert, Simen, Brian, Bill, Yigal, Gide,  Ary.
> 
> head/toe - 9: Bill, dsimcha, Robert, Simen, Max, Don, Michel, Denis, Brian,
> 
> front/back - 15: dsimcha, Chad, Steve, Robert, Nick, BCS, Bill, BLS, Yigal, Daniel, Max, Don, Gide, Brian, Andrei.
> 
> head/last - 7: John, Chad, Sean, Nick, Yigal, Kazuhiro, Max.
> 
> There were other choices that were not as popular as the ones above, please don't be angry I didn't mention them all.
> 
> This vote was rather informal so I allowed myself to do a tally without having specified a deadline etc. So I'm not sure how much this all counts... should we just settle for front and back?
> 
> 
> Andrei

Um, awesome thanks for the vote.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Chad J <gamerchad@__spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> first/last - 13: Jarrett, Bill, dsimcha, Sandeep, Chad, Tiago, Robert, Simen, Brian, Bill, Yigal, Gide,  Ary.
>>
>> head/toe - 9: Bill, dsimcha, Robert, Simen, Max, Don, Michel, Denis, Brian,
>>
>> front/back - 15: dsimcha, Chad, Steve, Robert, Nick, BCS, Bill, BLS, Yigal, Daniel, Max, Don, Gide, Brian, Andrei.
>>
>> head/last - 7: John, Chad, Sean, Nick, Yigal, Kazuhiro, Max.
>>
>> There were other choices that were not as popular as the ones above, please don't be angry I didn't mention them all.
>>
>> This vote was rather informal so I allowed myself to do a tally without having specified a deadline etc. So I'm not sure how much this all counts... should we just settle for front and back?
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Um, awesome thanks for the vote.

Just thinking about what will happen when we get containers integrating these kind of ranges.  Like a deque.  With current nomenclature we might end up with names like popHead and popToe. Both sound kinda... gross.

--bb

"Don" wrote
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> first/last - 13: Jarrett, Bill, dsimcha, Sandeep, Chad, Tiago, Robert, Simen, Brian, Bill, Yigal, Gide,  Ary.
>>
>> head/toe - 9: Bill, dsimcha, Robert, Simen, Max, Don, Michel, Denis, Brian,
>>
>> front/back - 15: dsimcha, Chad, Steve, Robert, Nick, BCS, Bill, BLS, Yigal, Daniel, Max, Don, Gide, Brian, Andrei.
>>
>> head/last - 7: John, Chad, Sean, Nick, Yigal, Kazuhiro, Max.
>>
>> There were other choices that were not as popular as the ones above, please don't be angry I didn't mention them all.
>>
>> This vote was rather informal so I allowed myself to do a tally without having specified a deadline etc. So I'm not sure how much this all counts... should we just settle for front and back?
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Are there two Bills? (See first/last).

This result brought to you by the Ohio voting machine association.

-Steve

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Chad J
> <gamerchad@__spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> first/last - 13: Jarrett, Bill, dsimcha, Sandeep, Chad, Tiago, Robert,
>>> Simen, Brian, Bill, Yigal, Gide,  Ary.
>>>
>>> head/toe - 9: Bill, dsimcha, Robert, Simen, Max, Don, Michel, Denis, Brian,
>>>
>>> front/back - 15: dsimcha, Chad, Steve, Robert, Nick, BCS, Bill, BLS,
>>> Yigal, Daniel, Max, Don, Gide, Brian, Andrei.
>>>
>>> head/last - 7: John, Chad, Sean, Nick, Yigal, Kazuhiro, Max.
>>>
>>> There were other choices that were not as popular as the ones above,
>>> please don't be angry I didn't mention them all.
>>>
>>> This vote was rather informal so I allowed myself to do a tally without
>>> having specified a deadline etc. So I'm not sure how much this all
>>> counts... should we just settle for front and back?
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrei
>> Um, awesome thanks for the vote.
> 
> Just thinking about what will happen when we get containers
> integrating these kind of ranges.  Like a deque.  With current
> nomenclature we might end up with names like popHead and popToe.
> Both sound kinda... gross.

Now if we are about to settle for front and back, how about following STL all the way through and using popFront and popBack? That would make for a very clean nomenclature.

Andrei

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Chris R Miller
> <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Pick one and stick with it.  That is all I would suggest.
>>
>> If someone takes major offense to it, they could alias it to their
>> preference, right?
> 
> Not really, because these names will be used as members of hundreds of
> different user-created range structs.
> There's no way to make a generic alias for a member of even one struct
> let alone hundreds of different ones.

I stand corrected.  Or actually I'm lying in bed with my back against the wall using my laptop, but you get the idea.