[notmuch] [PATCH] Added regress option to tags iterator

[Mark Anderson]

Excerpts from Carl Worth's message of Wed Dec 09 13:08:43 -0700 2009:
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:24:46 +0100, Ruben Pollan <meskio at sindominio.net> wrote:
> > Do you like to call them regress? Should I change that?
> 
> I don't love the name, (since it's so close to the word "regression"
> which has a totally different meaning in software context). But I also
> don't have an immediate suggestion for an improved name yet either.
> 
> > What about the functions notmuch_*_is_first? Is kind of reversed logic than
> > notmuch_*_has_more, the last are true when is not reach the limit but the
> > first ones are true when the limit is reached. But I think it make sense like
> > that.
> 
> I'd like a more symmetric API here. Anyone have a favorite set of names
> for iterating a list in two directions?

I like vocabulary games:

fwd/bck
forward/reverse
next/prev
advance/retreat
inc/dec
iter_fwd/iter_back
earlier/later
younger/older

I think that changing has_more is going to be a requirement to come up with a consistent set of names.

> 
> -Carl