Trivial (but not bikeshed please) question of style…

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 08:50 +0000, via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> Universities should teach how to model in a consistent fashion so 
> that the semantics of the model is easy to grasp for an outsider. 

Universities can never teach anything. Universities are places that
should support and guide student learning. The distinction here is
actually very subtle, often misunderstood, and yet crucial to real
success. 

> Languages and their libraries should support this modeling effort 
> and make it easier.
> 
> It is important that a lot of thought has been put into libraries 
> and consistent naming and semantics, because they affect the 
> overall model.

The naming strategy in the standard library of a language acts as an
exemplar of how a language should be used. STL and C++, Phobos and D.
Thus the naming and coding conventions in Phobos specify what the D
community should emulate. Even when they are wrong.

-- 
Russel.
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