Rename std.string.toStringz?

[Walter Bright]

On 6/25/2011 6:50 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> In the future the D community may be even larger - much larger hopefully.
> IMHO inconsistent naming in the standard lib makes D look
> unprofessional. If someone take a first look at the languages and it's
> standard lib and it looks like it's just cobbled together it may scare
> him off.

Perhaps you're right. But breaking his existing, working code will scare off a 
lot more people.

> I agree that there shouldn't be breaking changes /all the time/, but I'd
> really like to see *one* big breaking update that fixes all naming
> inconsistencies within Phobos. (Keeping deprecated aliases for the old
> names for some releases should make the transition easier.)

Breaking existing code has been going on for years now. It needs to stop.