ch-ch-changes

[Don]

Sandeep Kakarlapudi wrote:
> Bill Baxter Wrote:
> 
>> Does it really matter if it's used everywhere and consistently
>> throughout D?  It's like saying "char" is unintuitive.  Yeh, it is
>> unintuitive, but once you know it's short for "character" it's easy to
>> remember.  Surely a Chinese programmer once he learns toe is the last
>> item will have no problem remembering what it means, given the
>> relationship between head and toe on a person's body.
>>
>> --bb
> 
> "toe" is flat out silly and such names that pollute everything. If one doesn't get the proper unambigious name for something atleast invent a new one, do not borrow it and flat out confuse a newbie coming to the language or make decisions like this that everyone is going to be stuck with! There are 10 toes for every head!
> 
> Other mistakes that still irritate quite a few:
> C++ vector vs a mathematical vector

Someone should have been shot for that.

> In real time computer graphics, using binormal inplace of the bitangent. Curves have a binormal and surfaces have bitangents! 
> No matter how many times binormal is used it still is wrong and sounds counter intiutive! 
> 
> Perhaps Stackoverflow and reddit might give a representative feedback on what a large section of programmers think and whatever their preference might be it could be give some weight in case a new term is not being coined.