On PEP 322 (ireverse)

[Raymond Hettinger]

> Gonçalo Rodrigues wrote:
> > First, i like the name ireverse, much better then inreverse (eek!).

Thanks.

[Alex]
> I still prefer Werner Schiendl's idea of iter.reversed, IF we find a
> way to have builtin function iter grow a 'staticmethod' of sorts...!

No thanks.  Yuck.  Please do not twist this simple idea into knots.
This is supposed to be something you can teach in the first half-hour
and then use forever.  I would sooner teach negative xrange()
indices than immediately launch into dotted references to a static
method attached to something that doesn't look like it should have
a method.  This is a simplification, not an exercise in being cute
or clever just to avoid a builtin.


Raymond Hettinger