On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:53:01 -0000, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 1/23/14 8:06 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
This. Not my position. Rather I am suggesting we identify individual
omissions (like std.string.contains) and add an alias. So that people
don't have to struggle quite so much when switching to D. The lower the
bar and all that..
Ionno. Just look at the current morass with
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1875. We have two
names for the same function "canFind" and "any". Then we want to
deprecate one, but look at how much impact it's having on Phobos alone.
Are you sure you want to add a _third_?
Not *quite* the same. Any is/was in the same module as canFind and for
use in the exact same context. A string specific "contains" would only be
used in the context of string parsing. If contains existed in std.string
then it would be unusual for anyone to use canFind on a string (in a
string only context).
That's what I'm suggesting, not adding more generic aliases/names for
existing functions (as Any was) but adding specific names in specific
contexts for otherwise generic functions with odd generic names, like
canFind.
R
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