std.uni vs std.unicode and beyond?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Tue May 21 10:31:59 PDT 2013


On 5/21/13 1:27 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Then we can correctly judge whether the name change is worth doing. I
> don't know that it is. std.uni is not immediately recognizable as
> something else, so it warrants a lookup in the docs. Yes, less obvious,
> but not horrifically misnamed. I don't think it's worth the effort to
> rename at this point unless it's shown that nearly nobody uses it.

I agree. I'd personally love it if std.unicode replaced std.uni, but at 
this point the rename is insufficiently motivated. It's not like people 
go, "hmmm I need some Unicode stuff, let me see if std.unicode is there. 
No? The hell with it, I'm moving to another language."


Andrei


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