std.uni vs std.unicode and beyond?
Jacob Carlborg
doob at me.com
Tue May 21 10:10:42 PDT 2013
On 2013-05-21 18:25, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I don't disagree, but is it so bad that it's worth changing the name?
> That's all I'm saying, the bar has to be very high in order to require a
> name change.
>
> In general, changing the name of something without any added benefit
> (aside from the benefit of clarity) needs a very strong case to make
> that change. You are breaking code for no benefit to someone who
> doesn't care about the name. As the standard library we have to be
> super sensitive to these cases.
How about consistency? We don't want to look like PHP here.
It's great that we have a review queue, DIP's and pull request. But we
still have all the existing code that was there before which we need to
deal with.
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/Jacob Carlborg
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