[phobos] naming candidates for "shrinkToFit"

Andrei Alexandrescu andrei at erdani.com
Tue Mar 9 13:30:23 PST 2010


lgtm

Andrei

Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
> Some very good names came out of the newsgroup since the last release of DMD for the "shrinkToFit" function that I added recently.
> 
> The function makes the size of an allocated array match the given array slice so you can re-use the extra space via appending.
> 
> It is the equivalent of reducing the length in the old system.
> 
> The usage was:
> 
> arr.shrinkToFit();
> 
> several posters on the NG (See http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.announce&article_id=17800) suggested some good names.  A great suggestion was to follow in the footsteps of assumeUnique, since an assumption is what we are making.
> 
> The tricky part is to identify what we are assuming.  I think these two best capture what the function does:
> 
> assumeSafeExtend
> assumeSafeAppend
> 
> Don came up with the first, I came up with the second as an improvement.  Does anyone have any opinions here or other ideas?  If not, I'll just use assumeSafeAppend.
> 
> -Steve
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