"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:he9gba$167...@digitalmars.com... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> Yes! Capitalization consistency in the predefined versions! If it needs >> to be worded as a "removal", then "Remove version's capitalization >> inconsistencies" ;). The current state of that is absolutely ridiculous, >> and frankly, a real PITA ("Ok, I need to version for Blah OS...now what >> random capitalization did Walter chose to use for that one again...?"). I >> don't care about that change breaking existing code: For one thing, it's >> D2, it's not supposed to be stable yet, and secondly: Just say "with this >> release, grep all your code for "version" and update your >> capitalizations", or, better yet, depricate any use of the old names as >> errors, and just get the damn issue fixed already! > > The choices were not random. They coincided with the common usage of the > underlying C compiler.
To the average D user they may as well be random.