Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, March 09, 2012 09:33:20 deadalnix wrote:
> Le 07/03/2012 02:00, F i L a écrit :
> > I personally find it much easier to remember and use longer, more
> > sentance-like method names. However, Jonathan and others obviously feel
> > more comfortable writing with a high level of abbreviation, which they
> > justify rather well. Still, if D's goal is to gain popularity, I think
> > it should take notices of other rising languages like C#.
> > 
> > The problem with making any change to Phobos is backwards compatibility.
> 
> We just need a politic for the change. IE: make the old name a warning,
> then deprecated, then remove it. Spread the process to a year or so.

We're not changing symbol names without a good reason. Yes, there's a 
deprecation process that allows us to change them if we need to, but it's 
still disruptive.

- Jonathan M Davis