8 Jun
2010
8 Jun
'10
1:31 p.m.
"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"?
That works, too. Do you object to "reorder" or were you just trying to enlarge the set of choices?
No objection - but to me its sense includes the possibility of arbitrary re-ordering. And certainly I was trying to enlarge the set of candidates for consideration.
"reorder" has few characters to type, but it does have an additional syllable to speak.
-- Alec Ross