On Tuesday, 28 October 2014 at 17:44:36 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
But parent is not the actual object, it's a *mailbox* of that
object, or a reference. In essence, you are saying "use this
recipient record to send a message to it's target"
I think in general you should strive to achieve this syntax:
"subject.method(object);"
Who are you asking to do the "send"? Not "parent", so parent is
not subject for "send", it is subject for "receive":
"Subject, do method using object!".
If you are saying we should expect sort(arr) to return a *copy*
of the array that is sorted, I don't think that's a fair
assessment of D user expectations.
I prefer to use import systems where I retain the module name for
non-generic "free" functions. So then then module will be the
subject of the action, or I add a prefix with underscore to
indicate an affiliated subject:
os.syscall() // os is the subject
gc_free() // gc subsystem is the subject
I very seldom have short free functions that aren't strictly pure.
