Rename std.ctype to std.ascii?

Jouko Koski joukokoskispam101 at netti.fi
Tue Jun 14 11:53:13 PDT 2011


"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:

> So, yes I understood. It's just that as far as I can tell, locales don't
matter if you're completely restricting yourself to ASCII like std.ctype 
does.

I would not consider it being good idea to include this kind of ascii-only 
utilities in the standard-ish library. It might be best to rename the module 
to std.ascii_for_insular_yankees_others_keep_away so that nobody would use 
it by accident. This way the name would also remind us about the historical 
terms which were used quarter of a century ago when ascii-only <ctype.h> 
utilities were first suggested to the intenational C standardization 
committee.

-- 
Jouko 



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