On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 04:56:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > On 5/5/2014 7:51 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> On 5/5/14, 5:54 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >>> 2. why "make" instead of "construct" or "factory"? >> Shorter. > > "Less" is 4 characters. I win! There's a precedent for "make" in "std.container". For what it's worth.