"Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > 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.
Then why switch langauges at all? When you move to a different language you expect that language is going to have its own set of conventions. And even more than that, you also expect it to at least be internally-consistent, not a grab-bag of different styles. Are they really supposed to remember "Oh, oh, this func comes from this language, so it's capitalized this way, and that one comes from that language so it's capitalized that way..." Not only that, but D has far, far bigger, more significant differences from Ruby/Python/JS/etc than the capitalization of a few functions. If people are going to come over and get used to *those* changes, then using toLower instead of tolower is going to be a downright triviality for them. Your cart is before your horse.
