On 7/20/15 11:54 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Andrei/Walter should just step in and make the final call on whatever lousy name they wish (let's admit it, none of the names are any good, and you ain't gonna please everybody no matter what), and let's just move on.
That's what we did a few times in the past. It did help with limiting discussions and revisionist pull requests, but not as much as anyone would have liked.
It seems to me that subjecting new names to some community scrutiny before freezing them forever is a sensible thing to do. The difficulties are finding good definitions for "community" and "scrutiny". And "some" :o). From what I can tell:
* For any name considered, there is at least one person who strongly believes is an epically bad choice and presents vivid anecdotes, similes, and parallels with other languages and domains to support that opinion.
* For most names considered, there is at least one person who is a strong advocate and is convinced that's by far a better choice than all others.
* Whatever choice we make, there's a sort of atmosphere that a radically better name is just around the corner and we'll all regret having freezing it.
* There's a sort of Warhol effect in that naming discussions are massive, therefore they must be important, therefore they garner attention, therefore they get more massive.
I had vague hopes some clarity would emerge from opening up the process. Sadly this is one of those "welcome to the club" results. What I do hope happens is more appreciation of all involved of the difficulty of making decisions and judgment calls in matters in which there's no telling right from wrong. Please, please, please cut Walter and me some slack in the future.
I'll talk to him today in the hope we'll be able to put an end to this. Andrei
