Bartosz about Chapel

[Walter Bright]

On 11/11/2011 5:30 AM, Marco Leise wrote:
> I hope you see the difference between 'byte' which is confusing, but 100%
> consistent with (u)byte, (u)short, (u)int and (u)long, and other discussions
> about 'inout' which originated from in and out and will forever be confused with
> them. There is also some library functions, like clear() which looks like the
> well known action to remove all elements from a container when used with
> universal function call on (associative-)arrays, but has a different purpose.


I do have to agree that there are two sides to everything.

For example, "immutable" used to be named "invariant". Unfortunately, I had to 
spend endless effort explaining to people about what invariant meant. I found I 
frequently described invariant as meaning immutable. When I said the word 
"immutable", people would get it.

I finally had to accept the inevitable, and change the keyword.