Sandeep Kakarlapudi wrote:
Bill Baxter Wrote:
Does it really matter if it's used everywhere and consistently
throughout D? It's like saying "char" is unintuitive. Yeh, it is
unintuitive, but once you know it's short for "character" it's easy to
remember. Surely a Chinese programmer once he learns toe is the last
item will have no problem remembering what it means, given the
relationship between head and toe on a person's body.
--bb
"toe" is flat out silly and such names that pollute everything. If one doesn't
get the proper unambigious name for something atleast invent a new one, do not borrow it
and flat out confuse a newbie coming to the language or make decisions like this that
everyone is going to be stuck with! There are 10 toes for every head!
Other mistakes that still irritate quite a few:
C++ vector vs a mathematical vector
Someone should have been shot for that.
In real time computer graphics, using binormal inplace of the bitangent. Curves have a binormal and surfaces have bitangents!
No matter how many times binormal is used it still is wrong and sounds counter intiutive!
Perhaps Stackoverflow and reddit might give a representative feedback on what a large section of programmers think and whatever their preference might be it could be give some weight in case a new term is not being coined.
