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Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jan 8 08:40:05 PST 2015


Am Thu, 08 Jan 2015 08:27:50 -0800
schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>:

> On 1/8/15 8:19 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> > What kind of action would you expect? Renaming a name
> > which has been used for two years now without complaints, simply
> > because it looks bad in the new documentation?
> >
> > As we usually don't rename functions with inconsistent naming or
> > otherwise bad names because of  backwards compatibility (TM) I guess
> > that's not what you want. OTOH I'm not sure if ddox could be much
> > improved in this regard. Maybe it shouldn't display the full name,
> > only Class.member. But I don't really know what you expect.
> 
> I was thinking along the way of simplifying documentation and links.
> -- Andrei

I guess that should be done by somebody familiar with the ddox codebase
then. Two small improvements that could help:
* Make names/filenames case sensitive
* display only shortened names (Class.member, Module.member)

This leaves the URL/link problem but I don't know how that could
be solved.


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