On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:52:01 -0000, Dicebot <pub...@dicebot.lv> wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 11:26:39 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
No, you really don't.
If you're writing string code you will intuitively reach for
"substring", "contains", etc because you already know these terms and
what behaviour to expect from them. In a generic context, or a range
context you will reach for different generic or range type names.
Trusting intuition is not acceptable.
Sure it is, if we're talking about making life easier for beginners and
making things more "obvious" in general. Of course, not everyone has the
same idea of obvious, but there is enough overlap and we would *only*
define aliases for that overlap. In short, if people expect it to be
there, lets make sure it's there.
I will go and check in docs in most case if I have not encountered it
before. Check each time for every new aliases. I'd hate to have this
overhead.
Huh? Assuming you have a decent editor checking the docs should be as
simple as pressing F1 on the unknown function. And, that's only assuming
it's not immediately obvious what it's doing. Are you telling me, that
you would be confused by seeing...
if (str.contains("hello"))
I seriously doubt that, and that's all I'm suggesting, adding aliases for
things which are obvious, things which any beginner will expect to be
there, and currently aren't there.
I am *not* suggesting we add every obscure name for every single function,
that would be complete nonsense. Lets not get confused about the scope of
what I'm suggesting, I am suggesting a very limited number of new aliases,
and only for cases where there is a clear obvious expected name which we
currently lack.
Right now all I need to do is to stop thinking about strings as strings
- easy and fast.
Sure, once you learn all the generic terms for things. I *still* have
trouble finding the LINQ function I need when I want to do something in
the LINQ generic style .. and I've been using LINQ for at least a year
now. The issue is that the generic name just does not naturally occur to
me in certain contexts, like strings.
R
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