On Thursday, 13 August 2015 at 17:09:11 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Thursday, 13 August 2015 at 17:06:18 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Matter of scale. At some point of application size
maintenance cost become much higher than development costs -
and problems of name clashes become more important than any
extra typing annoyance.
Well, if name clashes become that high in a .cpp file, odds
are that it's pulling in too much stuff.
My projects have been broken twice by adding new functions to
druntime (and one was symbol added to object.di :)). Forgive me
if I discard that argument as nonsense. If short names are
allowed and project is big enough, clashes are simply
inevitable. With D module system even medium size will do.
Yes. Clashes are going to happen, especially if you're using
short names heavily, but in C++, I've rarely had problems with
it. D is potentially worse, because we don't have the equivalent
separation of header and source files where it's only the source
files that risk breakage. But still, I'd _much_ rather just deal
with the occasional breakage than have to qualify everything.
- Jonathan M Davis
