On 10/16/2010 12:38 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:19:36 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
The problem with "adaptTo" is that, just like itoa or printf, it is
too boring to have marketing value.
Wait, really? This statement has no place in a programming language
decision IMO. Nobody is going to start using D because it has a function
*named* duck.
Let's change writef to shazam! Let's call File BitLocker! And 'to'
really should be called transformationVehicle!
I think ducktype is an important feature of D. I want to give it a name
that is correspondingly resounding. The likes of files, writef, and
conversions are commonplace. That's all.
Andrei
