On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 08:23:15 UTC, bearophile wrote:
That is named "relying on hand-managed name conventions for something that could be the job of the compiler type system".
Sure. It'd have been nice if the language was designed to avoid these types of problems from the beginning (though a language feature/syntax rules to learn dedicated to a problem that is easily solved with a naming convention would be debatable). But it wasn't and it'd break too much code for a minuscule gain and there exists a reasonable workaround (that also is commonly used everywhere else for this same problem in most other languages). Changing this now would be horrifically bad and the benefit of such a change is effectively nothing.
