eliminate junk from std.string?

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
> news:igi18o$e5e$2 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 1/11/11 6:34 AM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>>> Oh, one more thing: can the names be consistent?
>>>
>>> inpattern
>>> countChars
>>> expandtabs
>>> chompPrefix
>>> toupper
>>> toupperInPlace ??
>>>
>>> If this can't be done for backwards compatibility maybe you can make 
>>> alias for the
>>> previous ones.
>> The names are for compatibility with... other languages :o|.
>>
> 
> Would that other language be Walterish or C?

The names generally come from Python, Ruby and Javascript.