Editions Ideas

Adam Wilson flyboynw at gmail.com
Fri Dec 26 17:53:49 UTC 2025


On Friday, 26 December 2025 at 00:48:54 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 December 2025 at 22:33:28 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
> Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>> Rename it to ``@namedexpr``
>
> No thanks
>
> One of the reason people mentioned they were turned off by D is 
> weird naming decisions like using `enum` for manifest 
> constants. Good names matter; familiar names are good, even if 
> semantics are slightly different

I also told him in DM's that nobody is going to know what that 
name means. I sure don't.

Names have become a focus point of mine while working on Phobos 
3. JMD will tell you that I can be super picky. But your 
reasoning is sound. Names need to be familiar even if they are 
slightly different.

And yes, I tend to use `@property` like I use it in C#.


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