From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-11-26T23:46:59+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR: Stack, Queue alias methods in Array

Hi,

In message "RCR: Stack, Queue alias methods in Array"
    on 02/11/26, Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> writes:

|Proposed aliases:
|
|top <- last
|enqueue, append <- push
|dequeue <- shift
|head <- [0]
|tail <- last

top      "top" returns last item?  probably confusing.
append   we already have append.
enqueue  possible, interesting, little bit hard to remember the spell.
dequeue  ditto.
head     maybe, but..
tail     some may feel "tail" must return everything but first.

							matz.