Rename std.string.toStringz?

[Ali Çehreli]

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:59:07 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> toWStringz to match toStringz

That's amusing. :) toString is a name that morphs the type name (string -
> String) due to following an insufficient naming standard adamantly. In 
a perfect world the name of the function should be to_string (or 
fortunately to!string in D's case).

Although this naming standard produces that broken name, we stop 
following it when producing the name of a sister function. The logic that 
produced toString should insist on toWstring. :p (Or perhaps we are 
implying that wstring should be wString or WString to begin with?)

I humbly recommend that we put some more engineering in programming in 
general but at least when naming. Camel casing is broken as it produces 
the same name for two separate types:

string -> toString
String -> toString

I know it's too late for toString but it should be fine to use 
underscores where camel casing doesn't work:

string -> to_string
String -> to_String

Ali