What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Thias" <void at invalid.com> wrote in message 
news:ih52a8$2bba$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 18/01/11 20:26, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Jim wrote:
>>> Adam Ruppe Wrote:
>>>> Maybe. 9/10 times they match anyway, but I'd be annoyed if the package
>>>> names had to match the containing folder.
>>>
>>> This is enforced in some languages, and I like it. It'd be confusing
>>> if they
>>> didn't match when I would go to look for something.
>>>
>>> I think it would be a good idea for D to standardise this. Not only so
>>> that
>>> the compiler can traverse and compile but for all dev tools (static
>>> analysers, package managers, etc). Standardisation makes it easier to
>>> create
>>> toolchains, which I believe are essential for the growth of any
>>> language use.
>>
>> Forcing the module name to match the file name sounds good, but in
>> practice it makes it hard to debug modules. What I like to do is to copy
>> a suspicious module to foo.d (or whatever.d) and link it in explicitly,
>> which will override the breaking one. Then, I hack away at it until I
>> discover the problem, then fix the original.
>
> Couldn’t you do exactly the same thing by just copying the file?
>
> cp suspicious.d suspicious.orig
> edit suspicious.d

That's what I do. Works fine. (Although I keep the .d extension, and do like 
"suspicious orig.d")