Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > 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. >
Sounds like an epitaph!