[Seaside-dev] Peeking Unconsumed Path

Paolo Bonzini bonzini at gnu.org
Wed Oct 20 12:04:26 UTC 2010


On 10/20/2010 01:47 PM, Julian Fitzell wrote:
> If we're being pedantic and want it to read like natural language, the
> verb peek doesn't take a direct object in English... you can peek at
> something but you can't peek something. "remaining" is probably better
> than "rest" though since it's consistent with "next" (both
> adjectives).

Funny, I always thought of #next/#next: as a noun (they return "the 
next" or "the next 5" items), consistently with "the contents" (or "the 
rest").  #nextPut: on the other hand uses "next" as an adverb.

Anyway, #peekAtRest indeed sounds much better than the #peekRest name I 
had suggested.

Paolo


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