Should this work?

[Dicebot]

On Wednesday, 29 January 2014 at 10:13:44 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
>> I will go and check in docs in most case if I have not 
>> encountered it before. Check each time for every new aliases. 
>> I'd hate to have this overhead.
>
> Huh?  Assuming you have a decent editor checking the docs 
> should be as simple as pressing F1 on the unknown function.

It requires your mental context switching anyway.

> And, that's only assuming it's not immediately obvious what 
> it's doing.  Are you telling me, that you would be confused by 
> seeing...
>
> if (str.contains("hello"))

I won't be confused but I won't also be sure. For example, it may 
return boolean or inclusion count. `str` can be string of array 
of strings. With uniform ranges-based algorithms I can always 
expect consistent interpretation (or rant about inconsistent 
naming :)

> I seriously doubt that, and that's all I'm suggesting, adding 
> aliases for things which are obvious, things which any beginner 
> will expect to be there, and currently aren't there.

I don't buy into appealing to imaginary "any beginner" which has 
expectations identical to other "any beginner". My observations 
show quite the contrary - that those expectations are actually 
often different and incompatible and best way for a language is 
to force beginners to switch to expectations of the language.