I don't know why it hasn't been mentioned (it was hinted at by Tamas) but
it seems to me the clear solution is for most of Base to actually be moved
into submodules like 'LinAlg'. Then to use those names, people need to call
'using LinAlg' or 'using Sparse', etc... Somebody mentioned how 'cholfact'
might be confusing to generic programmer, but a generic programmer should
never even see the name unless he or she goes looking for it.
I would be highly skeptical of any attempt to make the standard library a
single gigantic list of function names that everyone can understand the
purpose of by glancing at.
On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 9:45:39 AM UTC-4, Yuuki Soho wrote:
>
> I think one should go over all the names in Base and see if there's some
> rules that can be applied sanely to come up with better naming scheme.
>
> If you introduce factorize(MyType,...) and want to be consistent about
> this kind of things you might end up changing a lot of the functions in
> base. E.g.
>
> sqrtm -> sqrt(Matrix,...)
> hist2d -> hist(Dimension{2},...)
> ...
>
