On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 08:33:58 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 08:23:15 UTC, bearophile wrote:
That is named "relying on hand-managed name conventions for
something that could be the job of the compiler type system".
Sure. It'd have been nice if the language was designed to avoid
these types of problems from the beginning (though a language
feature/syntax rules to learn dedicated to a problem that is
easily solved with a naming convention would be debatable). But
it wasn't and it'd break too much code for a minuscule gain and
there exists a reasonable workaround (that also is commonly
used everywhere else for this same problem in most other
languages). Changing this now would be horrifically bad and the
benefit of such a change is effectively nothing.
Yes, but D/Phobos depreciates/removes a lot of different things.
For example, we can use only warning (maybe only with special
compiler flag like `-property`).
