On Friday, 17 February 2017 at 11:40:35 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Well, there's a _long_ history of it being called rename on
POSIX systems, and since the D function is a simple wrapper
around rename, it makes sense that it's called rename, much as
I agree that the name isn't the best for anyone not familiar
with the C function. Regardless, changing it now would break
code, and at this point, we pretty much never rename public
symbols in Phobos just to improve their names.
Nobody wants to rename `rename` :-) But an additional `move`
function would be nice.
[...]
I agree. std.file needs more work.
