[phobos] naming candidates for "shrinkToFit"

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

lgtm

Andrei

Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
> Some very good names came out of the newsgroup since the last release of DMD for the "shrinkToFit" function that I added recently.
> 
> The function makes the size of an allocated array match the given array slice so you can re-use the extra space via appending.
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> It is the equivalent of reducing the length in the old system.
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> The usage was:
> 
> arr.shrinkToFit();
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> several posters on the NG (See http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.announce&article_id=17800) suggested some good names.  A great suggestion was to follow in the footsteps of assumeUnique, since an assumption is what we are making.
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> The tricky part is to identify what we are assuming.  I think these two best capture what the function does:
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> assumeSafeExtend
> assumeSafeAppend
> 
> Don came up with the first, I came up with the second as an improvement.  Does anyone have any opinions here or other ideas?  If not, I'll just use assumeSafeAppend.
> 
> -Steve
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