On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 5:21:27 PM UTC-5, Scott Jones wrote: > > Why can't we have our cake and eat it too? > > I'd suggest that all of these methods be given maximally understandable > names... > such as sparse_random_normal for sprandn. > Can't you then simply define sprandn as an alias for sparse_random_normal? > Would there be maybe a to have only the long names exported normally, and > then setting up the aliases if you want them... >
I'm not sure what that buys you if everyone uses the aliases (the long name goes unused). Or if anyone uses the aliases (you have to realize these are both the same method). Or if no one uses the aliases (then why have them?).
