New names - 2.068 roundup

Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 25 12:55:41 PDT 2015


On 6/25/15 3:48 PM, Mathias Lang via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 2015-06-25 21:28 GMT+02:00 Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com <mailto:digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>>:
>
>     On 6/24/15 11:12 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
>         So I actually implemented this. I made it a std.internal type so
>         it can
>         be used wherever you need to port string concatenation to a chain.
>
>
>     Seems like Andrei has nixed this idea:
>
>     "Please no breakages and no clever schemes and no overengineering."
>
>     http://forum.dlang.org/post/mmhjqe$2mud$1@digitalmars.com
>
>     Oh well. I'm kind of done with the whole naming thing, there are
>     better things I could (and probably should) be doing. Plus arguing
>     against Walter and/or Andrei is kind of an uphill battle, especially
>     if they both agree on something.
>
>     I'll leave the branch up for anyone who wants to continue to try
>     things with it, it was a very cool idea.
>
>
> And he's right. It is really annoying to update to a new version and
> have perfectly valid and working code breaking because someone had a
> nice idea. Ideally, we should only ever break code that has a bug in it.

Yeah, I agree for existing names, but these are unreleased new names.

-Steve



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