On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 19:30:26 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 02/10/2016 01:51 PM, w0rp wrote:
I wonder if the addition of another function for printing will
confuse
some new users.
In my experience:
* two names for the same exact thing => annoyance (not only in
D, e.g. dual use of "class" and "typename" in C++)
* two different names that do the same thing in slightly
different without a distinction, interchangeable ways =>
confusion and annoyance (e.g. "class" vs "struct" in C++)
* two names that do the same thing, one poorly and one better
=> confusion (e.g. "stringstream" vs. "strstream", vector<bool>
vs vector_bool in C++)
* two names that do two similar, but distinct things => "oh ok"
(e.g. "map" vs. "multimap").
So I think we're safe.
Andrei
Yeah, that makes sense. Fair enough.
