duck!

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/16/2010 12:38 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:19:36 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
>> The problem with "adaptTo" is that, just like itoa or printf, it is
>> too boring to have marketing value.
>
> Wait, really? This statement has no place in a programming language
> decision IMO. Nobody is going to start using D because it has a function
> *named* duck.
>
> Let's change writef to shazam! Let's call File BitLocker! And 'to'
> really should be called transformationVehicle!

I think ducktype is an important feature of D. I want to give it a name 
that is correspondingly resounding. The likes of files, writef, and 
conversions are commonplace. That's all.

Andrei