Against deprecating aliases

[Christophe]

Jonathan M Davis , dans le message (digitalmars.D:145653), a écrit :
> Having toUTF and toUTFz is a marked improvement in many cases - especially for 
> generic code. They're being added regardless of what the deal with toUTF16z 
> is.
> 
> The reason that toUTF16z is being removed is essentially because Andrei is 
> very much opposed to having functions with specific types in their names and 
> thinks that they should all be generic. Personally, I'm not opposed to keeping 
> toUTF16z as an alias or wrapper to toUTFz. It's Andrei that seems to feel 
> stongly about it. So, if enough people really want to keep toUTF16z, then I 
> think that that can happen.

Sure, toWcharz would be a really bad name, but UTF16 is not a specific 
type, it is a specific encoding.

-- 
Christophe