Revised RFC on range design for D2

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> Pablo Ripolles wrote:
>>> What about "isDone"?
>> isDone is great, I just wanted to keep the one-word streak going. Let's see
>> what everyone else says.
> 
> Hmm.  std.algorithm does have an "isSorted" function.  So I guess I
> agree it would be more consistent if you call it isDone or isEmpty.
> 
> Or rename "isSorted" to "sorted".  :-)  But then you have to face the
> consequences later when you want to have a predicate that is ambiguous
> without the "is".    Probably a lot of noun predicates are in that
> category -- i.e. checking  isSomeNoun(x).  Like "isRange(x)" to see if
> x is a range.  That would have to just become "range(x)" which is a
> bit ambiguous.
> 
> So I agree. Stick the "is" in there.

Thing is, people will call isSorted much less often than (isD|d)one. In 
std.algorithm clearly the one-word paradigm can't scale. But for a 
handful of heavily-used names I'd be willing to take the Pepsi challenge.

Andrei

P.S. The more I think of it, the more I like "tip" of the range. Short, 
poignant, easy to remember. Not pressing the red button just yet.