RE: Return to Reverse Execution

["Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>]

Michael Snyder wrote:

> 
> Anybody else feel that "back" or "backward" is a better prefix
> than "reverse"?  Or perhaps that the syntax should be implemented
> as a true command prefix?  With perhaps both alternatives allowed?


  I feel this is becoming a bikeshed colour issue :) and don't think it should
distract our attention!

  I think that if there is any potential confusion about what the terms might
mean in the context of having set the exec-direction reverse, then that simply
implies that the exec-direction command is superfluous and obfuscating, and
that all we need are one set of commands to go forwards, one set to go back,
and people can use the correct ones according to the direction they actually
want to go (which they should _know_ in any case!) rather than offering an
extra feature whose semantics would seem to be "Invert the meaning of what I
say as a convenience so that I can use the wrong command to do what I want".

[  IMOs, YMMVs, disclaimers and smilies go here....  ]

    cheers,
      DaveK
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