Naming conventions for functions in similar modules

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:53:39 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> On 6/22/2011 4:47 AM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>> One problem:  std.uni only contains functions for dealing with upper/
>> lower case and for checking whether something is an alpha character. 
>> If you want the other functions, such as isDigit(), isPunctuation(),
>> etc. you still have to import std.ascii.  And once you have imported
>> both std.uni and std.ascii, you are forced to disambiguate every time
>> you call a function which exists in both.
> 
> True, but I don't see much of an improvement of:
> 
>     toAsciiLower()
> 
> over:
> 
>     std.ascii.tolower()
> 
> at least as far as typing goes.

I agree with that.  My point was that maybe std.unit should also have 
functions such as isDigit(), isPunctuation() etc.  I suppose we want to 
encourage the use of std.uni over std.ascii in most cases, since D is 
supposed to handle Unicode out of the box.

-Lars