Should this work?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Jan 23 12:53:01 PST 2014


On 1/23/14 8:06 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
> This.  Not my position.  Rather I am suggesting we identify individual
> omissions (like std.string.contains) and add an alias.  So that people
> don't have to struggle quite so much when switching to D.  The lower the
> bar and all that..

Ionno. Just look at the current morass with 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1875. We have two 
names for the same function "canFind" and "any". Then we want to 
deprecate one, but look at how much impact it's having on Phobos alone. 
Are you sure you want to add a _third_?


Andrei



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