On Wednesday, 29 January 2014 at 10:13:44 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
I will go and check in docs in most case if I have not
encountered it before. Check each time for every new aliases.
I'd hate to have this overhead.
Huh? Assuming you have a decent editor checking the docs
should be as simple as pressing F1 on the unknown function.
It requires your mental context switching anyway.
And, that's only assuming it's not immediately obvious what
it's doing. Are you telling me, that you would be confused by
seeing...
if (str.contains("hello"))
I won't be confused but I won't also be sure. For example, it may
return boolean or inclusion count. `str` can be string of array
of strings. With uniform ranges-based algorithms I can always
expect consistent interpretation (or rant about inconsistent
naming :)
I seriously doubt that, and that's all I'm suggesting, adding
aliases for things which are obvious, things which any beginner
will expect to be there, and currently aren't there.
I don't buy into appealing to imaginary "any beginner" which has
expectations identical to other "any beginner". My observations
show quite the contrary - that those expectations are actually
often different and incompatible and best way for a language is
to force beginners to switch to expectations of the language.
