What's wrong with your HEAD?

[DavidM]

(10-08-2018 08:27 PM)John Keith Wrote:  I favor not including LTAIL if there is no significant speed improvement.

(10-10-2018 11:07 AM)pier4r Wrote:  What I think it is needed is a mention in the documentation.

I was originally thinking that I could include a symbolic link entry (tNAME) in the ListExt catalog that would go by the name LTAIL but would actually compile to a reference to TAIL (including it in the library's menu wouldn't be necessary). RPLCOMP appears perfectly happy with that situation, but SLOAD sees the ROMPTR as a duplicate entry and thus won't load the reference. So in simpler terms, "it doesn't work".

That means the only way I could manage it would be to create a short object that simply jumps to the TAIL code. That works, but because it is essentially just an extra jump in the execution chain, it can only slow things down.

This is a long way to say that I agree that even just creating an "alias" (LTAIL->TAIL) isn't worthwhile.

As for the documentation, I would think listing "TAIL (standard RPL command)" in the "See also:" section for LHEAD should be adequate.