Re: Naming of new lazy versions of existing Phobos functions

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/18/2014 10:59 AM, Brad Anderson wrote:
What do you think?

I'd leaven that proposal with the observation that functions are likely to be 
lexically sorted by name. Hence, like functions should lexicographically be 
adjacent to each other.

"setExtension" and "withExtension" will be widely separated, and a user looking 
for such a function will likely see only one of them and not be aware of the 
other, which may be a better fit for him.

Note that Microsoft often adds the suffix "Ex" when creating a new version of an 
API function. It works well because the new and old will be sorted right next to 
each other. I'm not suggesting that these ranges add that particular suffix, 
just pointing out what others do.