On Wednesday 20 January 2016 20:48:42 Kevin Kofler wrote: > I consider STL's inconsistent APIs from one container to the other to be a > major annoyance. And it is not even always about efficiency: e.g., > std::queue and std::priority_queue are implemented in the SAME header > <queue>, both are queues, yet std::queue calls its head element front(), > std::priority_queue calls it top().
He's standing at the front[1] of the queue This item has top priority. Get it? I guess you'll also find these terms in text books. [1] Yes, "head". I guess Alex Stepanov can be excused for picking this one "wrong". With head(), the other-end function would have had to be tail() and that's just wrong for a person, as he was, coming from Lisp. A list's tail is the rest of the list, after the head. -- Marc Mutz <marc.m...@kdab.com> | Senior Software Engineer KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH & Co.KG, a KDAB Group Company Tel: +49-30-521325470 KDAB - The Qt Experts _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
