On 02/10/2011 05:18 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 2/10/11 12:30 AM, Olivier Pisano wrote:
Le 09/02/2011 21:08, Ary Manzana a écrit :
On 2/9/11 3:54 PM, bearophile wrote:
- There is no need to learn to use a function with a weird syntax like
iota, coming from APL. This makes Phobos and learning D a bit simpler.
I would recommend stop using "weird" names for functions. Sorry if this
sounds a little harsh but the only reason I see this function is called
"iota" is to demonstrate knowledge (or to sound cool). But programmers
using a language don't care about whether the other programmer
demonstrates knowledge behind a function name, they just want to get
things done, fast.
I mean, if I want to create a range of numbers I would search "range".
"iota" will never, ever come to my mind. D has to be more open to
public, not only to people who programmed in APL, Go or are mathematics
freaks. Guess how a range is called in Ruby? That's right, Range.
Another example: retro. The documentation says "iterates a bidirectional
name backwards". Hm, where does "retro" appear in that text? If I want
to iterate it backwards, or to reverse the order, the first thing I
would write is reverse(range) or backwards(range), "retro" would never
come to my mind.
(and no, replies like "you can always alias xxx" are not accepted :-P)
Hi,
I agree iota is a bad name.
Fifth result of simply googling the entire Web for "iota":
http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/iota.html
Andrei
Google search takes your preferences into account. They must be tracking
your search history, peeking into your gmail accounts etc. I searched
for 'iota' and couldn't find the STL link on the first 5 pages.
