On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 11:00:54PM +0200, Dov Feldstern wrote:
> Dov Feldstern wrote:
> >Martin Vermeer wrote:
> >>On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:56:40AM +0200, Dov Feldstern wrote:
> >>>Hi!
> >>>
> >>>Attached find the final patch (at least for now) which gets rid of 
> >>>LTR bias in the code. I will commit in the next few days if there are 
> >>>no objections.
> >>>
> 
> Attached is a newer version of this patch --- after getting feedback 
> from Martin and Andre' --- in two parts. p3 is basically the same as the 
> previous patch, sans the idxFoo stuff. p4 is a new treatment of the 
> idxFoo methods: I just renamed the idxLeft and idxRight to idxBackward 
> and idxForward, respectively. So now, there should be absolutely no 
> change in behavior, the entire patch consists only of renames and 
> comments (unless I made a mistake somewhere).
> 
> Martin, I decided to change the idxFoo stuff even though it's only used 
> in math, which is entirely LTR, for the following reasons:
> 
> *) the methods *do* appear in Inset.h, so they could potentially be used 
> outside of math
> *) forward and backward are no less correct than left and right (even if 
> it is a tad less, well, visual)
> *) there are places in the code which now read "posBackward && 
> idxBackward", which I think is slightly better than "posBackward && idxLeft"
> 
> I hope you don't mind this too much...
> 
> Dov

Looks OK...

- Martin

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