Re: [discuss] Support for reverse-execution

Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-21T09:44:27Z

> Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 14:51:17 -0700
> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
>
> Make me a third person who thought of it independantly.
>
> Look at it this way -- once we've implemented the reverse-x
> command set, adding this would be trivial; just a single
> set/show mode variable. Then we could evaluate both, or even
> leave it to the user to choose.

The problem is, once we implement such a mode, the word "reverse"
becomes ambiguous: it no longer unambiguously says that we go
backwards.

That prospect was the original reason I mentioned the possibility of
introducing such a mode in the future. And that was the reason I
still think it's better, at least in principle, to say "backwards" or
"back", because that's unambiguous.