On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:36:00AM -0700, Nathann Cohen wrote:
>
> hmmm.... In everything I read, there are just mentions of out-
> neighbors and in-neighbors. I can give you a hundred references using
> these names,
Yup.
> and I would be much more alarmed to give you one reference using
> predecessors and successors...
Those are natural and are I have seen them used a lot whenever the
graph is acyclic and so more or less models a poset.
That's why I vote for both.
> Especially when for edges, you can type out<tab> and in<tab> to know
> the corresponding functions..
Which I feel puts the balance back for using the
English-correct version in-neighbours rather than neighbours-in.
By the way, I'd love to see g.*neighb*? work in the notebook.
Cheers,
Nicolas
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http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
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