On 01/11/2011 09:42 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Ary Borenszweig wrote:Why care where they come from? Why not make them intuitive? Say, like, "Always camel case"?Because people are used to those names due to their wide use. It's the same reason that we still use Qwerty keyboards.
We should be careful in assuming what people are used to. Compare: D/Python/Lisp/... - strip .NET/Delphi/Java/Qt/Haskell/... - Trim/trim/trimmed stripl/stripr are TrimStart/TrimEnd in .NET
