Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[deadalnix]

Le 07/03/2012 02:00, F i L a écrit :
> I personally find it much easier to remember and use longer, more
> sentance-like method names. However, Jonathan and others obviously feel
> more comfortable writing with a high level of abbreviation, which they
> justify rather well. Still, if D's goal is to gain popularity, I think
> it should take notices of other rising languages like C#.
>
> The problem with making any change to Phobos is backwards compatibility.

We just need a politic for the change. IE: make the old name a warning, 
then deprecated, then remove it. Spread the process to a year or so.