Why is phobos so wack?

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d]

On 07/09/2017 06:12 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 July 2017 at 17:07:16 UTC, bitwise wrote:
>> I suppose I'm biased, and PHP/Python have a fair following, but after 
>> a few years of PHP coding (part time as part of a larger project) I'm 
>> not sure I will ever make a full psychological recovery..
> 
> PHP actually is one of the languages that call this `trim`....
> 
> But I've never had the kind of problems with D's names that I have with 
> PHP's assorted weirdness.

It's nowhere remotely as bad as PHP (frankly, nothing else is), but D's 
growth over the years *has* left Phobos with a bit of a..."temporal 
inconsistancy" issue. Some things have been ironed out a bit (like how 
there was a module or two that used to use very unix CLI'ish naming 
conventions instead of D-ish namings), but there's still more to be 
done. And more will continue to be needed, with (ex.) allocators getting 
more and more finalized.