Whither Tango?

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Rainer Deyke wrote:
>> If you're going to go for a single-letter name, "i" is better than
>> "iota".  It's just as arbitrary, it's just as ambiguous, I have just as
>> little idea what it means, but it's shorter to write, and you don't need
>> to know the English names of Greek letters to recognize it.
> 
> "iota" is already present with the same semantics in 1.25 languages: C++
> and Go. Anyhow, what's a better name?
> 
	Just because C++ and Go made a mistake is no reason to make the
same mistake in D.

	You're still not addressing the fact that std.range.iota does not
match the dictionary definition of iota...

		Jerome
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