8 Jun
2010
8 Jun
'10
11:21 a.m.
I think that I have found a good name that can be used instead of the swap_in_place: "flip". This recall the flip operation used in bitset exchanging the value of a bit. On the endian context this will exchange in place the endianess of a data from/to the native endianess.
"Flip" is not appropriate to my mind. It works well for bits because they are binary, but it doesn't convey the idea of reordering bits/bytes to a specific sequence. I prefer my suggestion of "reorder" because, after all, the operation (ostensibly) reorders the data.
"transpose"? -- Alec Ross