[jerf]

Also the best answer to "how do you reverse an array". You don't. You just read it in the opposite order. Especially in any iterator-based language it should be trivial.

In a pure ASCII world, this doubles as "how do you reverse a string". In a Unicode world, the answer to "how do you reverse a string" is "you should never want to do that".

[saagarjha]

Right, but sometimes you actually do have to reverse the array.

[jerf]

I can't remember the last time I reversed an array. Honestly it's at least a code smell. Why can't your code just read it in the other direction? Or have it in the correct order in the first place (e.g., sort it correctly instead of sorting it backwards and then reversing it). It's not that hard, even in a C-style for loop language.

[saagarjha]

Because usually the code to handle it is not mine and it expects to go through the list in forward order. Nobody makes APIs that take a list of, idk, files to delete and lets you pass in a parameter that is “please actually run your for loop over this in reverse”. They expect you to flip your array before you hand it in.