On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 23:32:11 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Wednesday, 20 October 2010 at 10:57:50 UTC, Don wrote:
Unfortunately, somebody on the ng insisted that it should be
called feqrel(). Stupidly, I listened. And now nobody uses my
masterpiece because it has a totally sucky name.
These absurd contraption to win 5 chars are ridiculous.
I'm sure if you make some stats in various projects, the
functions with these stupid names are used way less because
nobody has any idea what feqrel and alike stands for.
Yup a simple search on Github proves this - approxEqual is used
~3x more often in D projects ;-)
approxEqual: 530
https://github.com/search?l=d&q=approxEqual&ref=searchresults&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93
fqrel: 187
https://github.com/search?l=d&q=feqrel&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93
