Vote for std.uni

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Tue May 21 03:18:49 PDT 2013


On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 08:40:33 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> I'm strongly against this. It makes the module name longer for 
> little gain and
> breaks code. And std.uni is actually one of the modules that 
> you're likely to
> have to spell out completely due to how it overlaps with 
> std.ascii.
>

That is true, but an alias can be easily created.

> Were there even any functions in std.uni which get deprecated 
> as part of this
> change. I don't remember any, but I'd have to check. But either 
> way, changing
> the module name would introduce 100% breakage in the module's 
> usage and for
> little to no gain IMHO.
>

We can still have std.uni for any period of time still available. 
Right now is the best moment for a change. We don't even need to 
break something.


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