Lost a new commercial user this week :(

David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Dec 27 14:14:09 PST 2014


On Saturday, 27 December 2014 at 20:24:27 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> 4. some terms need exposition, like: "Implements the homonym 
> function present in various programming languages of functional 
> flavor." I have no idea what that means. Googling "homonym 
> function" doesn't produce anything that looks relevant. A link 
> to an entry in http://dlang.org/glossary.html would be good.

"Homonym" is just a fancy way of saying "with the same name". But 
I agree:
  1) The docs should avoid overly fancy language.
  2) Analogies to other languages should never be the primary 
means of explanation.

David


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