Naming conventions for functions in similar modules

[Timon Gehr]

Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> 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

I guess then we'll also need a function to check for equivalence of two Unicode
strings.

Cheers,
-Timon