d assigns name Philosophy

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Apr 30 10:31:48 PDT 2009


dolive wrote:
> bearophile дµ½:
> 
>> dolive:
>>> Suggest the d Language and phobos lib ( And other lib )  assigns name to use the tallest phrase in the phrase of  word frequency .  This, should study toward the java .  This is also the key that the java jdk source code easily reads 
>>> This is also one of the java successful keys .
>>> thank you very much !
>> Are you trying to suggest to follow the Zipf's law in naming things in Phobos/Tango?
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
>> I agree.
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
> 
> 
> yes£¬is so

I'm not very sure. That would suggest using exceedingly common names 
(the, on, go, do, be, and, use...) which are often imprecise because 
they are used in a variety of contexts (hence their frequency). I often 
prefer a word that has a precise meaning.

Andrei



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