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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