Am Sat, 25 Jan 2014 14:36:52 +0000 schrieb "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com>:
> On Saturday, 25 January 2014 at 14:23:48 UTC, Peter Alexander > wrote: > > 100% agree. The key thing is that it should be consistent > > between strings and other range types. > > Indeed. It is better to have to look up the name in the beginning. If the name works well for strings, I agree. But otherwise I prefer established function names from popular languages like Python, Pascal/Delphi or Java. > Also, a good IDE will give you a list of alternatives and it is > important to keep this list as short as possible. Ideally there > should be no more than 10 functions for any type in order to > maximize the benefit of using an IDE. So few functions, but with > very descriptive names make me more efficient (I don't have to > look it up in the documentation). There are 360 completions for a string already in Mono-D with these imports: import std.algorithm; import std.array; import std.conv; import std.range; import std.stdio; import std.string; import std.traits; Don't bother with removing two or three function names for string overloads. That's optimizing in the wrong area. :) -- Marco
