Stupid little iota of an idea

[spir]

On 02/10/2011 04:34 PM, Max Samukha wrote:
> On 02/10/2011 05:18 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 2/10/11 12:30 AM, Olivier Pisano wrote:
>>> Le 09/02/2011 21:08, Ary Manzana a écrit :
>>>> On 2/9/11 3:54 PM, bearophile wrote:
>>>>> - There is no need to learn to use a function with a weird syntax like
>>>>> iota, coming from APL. This makes Phobos and learning D a bit simpler.
>>>>
>>>> I would recommend stop using "weird" names for functions. Sorry if this
>>>> sounds a little harsh but the only reason I see this function is called
>>>> "iota" is to demonstrate knowledge (or to sound cool). But programmers
>>>> using a language don't care about whether the other programmer
>>>> demonstrates knowledge behind a function name, they just want to get
>>>> things done, fast.
>>>>
>>>> I mean, if I want to create a range of numbers I would search "range".
>>>> "iota" will never, ever come to my mind. D has to be more open to
>>>> public, not only to people who programmed in APL, Go or are mathematics
>>>> freaks. Guess how a range is called in Ruby? That's right, Range.
>>>>
>>>> Another example: retro. The documentation says "iterates a bidirectional
>>>> name backwards". Hm, where does "retro" appear in that text? If I want
>>>> to iterate it backwards, or to reverse the order, the first thing I
>>>> would write is reverse(range) or backwards(range), "retro" would never
>>>> come to my mind.
>>>>
>>>> (and no, replies like "you can always alias xxx" are not accepted :-P)
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I agree iota is a bad name.
>>
>> Fifth result of simply googling the entire Web for "iota":
>>
>> http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/iota.html
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Google search takes your preferences into account. They must be tracking your
> search history, peeking into your gmail accounts etc. I searched for 'iota' and
> couldn't find the STL link on the first 5 pages.

Even then, noone forces D2 to blindly reproduce stupid naming from APL/C++, I 
guess. Or what?

Denis
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