A Down newtype in Data.Ord?

[Sjoerd Visscher]

Reverse is better indeed, but +1 on any name that ends with -verse.

Sjoerd

On Nov 20, 2011, at 11:56 PM, wren ng thornton wrote:

> On 11/19/11 3:19 PM, Sjoerd Visscher wrote:
>> Desc has the same problem as Down: it doesn't make clear that it makes an already descending ordering ascending.
> 
> FWIW I call the newtype Reverse in my local libraries. Another option would be Converse. (Both of which are a bit less ambiguous than Inverse.)
> 
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> Live well,
> ~wren
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