Naming of new lazy versions of existing Phobos functions

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jul 18 14:20:19 PDT 2014


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 09:14:44PM +0000, Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 18 July 2014 at 20:35:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
[...]
> >I find these interminable naming threads to be frustrating and an
> >impediment to progress on issues with Phobos that actually matter,
> >like making Phobos usable for people who don't want to use the GC.
> 
> The idea of creating this thread was to address the one remaining
> problem and get your stalled pull request merged. It seemed
> appropriate to bring up the issue since your pull request is the
> prototype for the effort and is something every other lazifying pull
> request will have to consider. I wanted to make it so we wouldn't have
> to bicker about naming with every pull request that comes in by trying
> to head off that problem at the pass.
[...]

On that note, can we please just name the function "withExtension" in
that PR, and get it merged? That's the fastest way to terminate these
frustrating, interminable threads and start moving somewhere. ;-)


T

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