RFC curl

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-11-10 09:50, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday, November 10, 2011 08:27:53 Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> What is the actual Phobos guideline in naming things that are keywords
>> in D. I'm thinking about Method.del, shouldn't it be Method.delete_ or
>> something similar, don't know what the guidelines say in this case. BTW,
>> I would really like to have more official guidelines somewhere at the
>> dpl page.
>
> Thus far, we've taken the approach of tacking an underscore on the end (so
> delete would be delete_), but we haven't made any kind of official decision on
> it. However, if it's reasonable to use a different word entirely, then that's
> generally better. It's stuff like std.traits.FunctionAttribute which pretty
> much _has_ to match the keyword where we've appended the underscore (e.g.
> pure_ and nothrow_).
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I agree, but this case it's not a completely different word, it's a 
shorting of the word.

I just like that there should be something more official when these 
things pop up.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg