(renamed topic because it diverges from the original) On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> wrote:
> The general philosophy is that for user code, having underscores in names > is fine, especially when the name refers to a composite thing. In Base > Julia, we consider long names with underscores to be a library design smell > that suggests that we're exposing something that's not sufficiently atomic. > The example of searchsortedlast and searchsortedfirst is in line with this > – I've never liked these names and would generally prefer to simply have > searchsorted returning a range from the first to last index where the value > occurs (which is an empty range when the value does not occur at all). > Isn't this what searchsorted already does? julia> searchsorted([1,2,3,3,3,5], 3) 3:5 julia> searchsorted([1,2,3,3,3,5], 4) 6:5 As we discussed a couple of years ago <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/julia-dev/s7Xu-Jvo3Yw/discussion>, unexporting them is an option. That got some pushback (from one person) at the time, but going through one round of deprecation should indicate how much people use these functions. Cheers, Kevin
