duck!

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 18 05:09:57 PDT 2010


On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:50:53 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 10/16/2010 04:00 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> But naming the function that does duck
>> typing 'duck' doesn't seem to me like it makes or breaks D at all.
>
> You do find it important, otherwise you wouldn't have spent cumulative  
> hours arguing about it.

Honestly, I am not objecting to the name duck!  It's a fine name, and  
successfully describes the meaning (as long as you explain it to newbies  
who have no idea what 'duck typing' is).  The only issue I have is the  
statement that naming the function duck is somehow a marketing benefit, or  
that naming it something that correctly describes the function, but isn't  
duck, will somehow push away users.

-Steve


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