Stupid little iota of an idea

[Nick Sabalausky]

"foobar" <foo at bar.com> wrote in message news:ij3cal$cee$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't find the name "iota" stupid.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Of course _you_ don't. However practically all the users _do_ find it 
> poorly named, including other developers in the project..
> This is the umpteenth time this comes up in the NG and incidentally this 
> is the only reason I know what the function does.
>
> If the users think the name is stupid than it really is. That's how 
> usability works and the fact the you think otherwise or that it might be 
> more accurate mathematically is really not relevant. If you want D/Phobos 
> to be used by other people besides yourself you need to cater for their 
> requirements.
>

I'd bet that most of the people looking at D's "filtering even numbers" 
example over at ( https://gist.github.com/817504 ) are thinking, "WTF is 
'iota'?"  (Either that or "What the hell is he converting to ASCII for?")