DMD 2.064 changelog typo?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/29/13 3:06 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 10/29/13, monarch_dodra <monarchdodra at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Now that you mention it, that is also a good point.  I feel they
>> should indeed be called stripFront and stripBack.
>>
>> @jmdavis, @andrejmitrovic: how would you feel about such a change?
>
> It's funny that you should tag us two, I've asked about this here:
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1201#issuecomment-17594047
>
> Only got one reply, from JMD:
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1201#issuecomment-17984774
>
> And it wasn't talked about since. I think using the alias approach
> would work, IOW std.array could use stripLeft/stripRight aliases to
> stripFront/stripBack which would be in std.algorithm. There's
> certainly nothing "left/right" about ranges.
>
> Should we fix this before the release is made? What do Andrei and others think?

I'm okay with either choice, just not both. There's precedent in other 
languages for stripLeft and stripRight, but stripFront/Back are closer 
to D's terminology. I have a very mild preference for the latter.


Thanks,

Andrei