"foobar" <f...@bar.com> wrote in message news:ij3cal$cee$1...@digitalmars.com... > Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > >> >> I don't find the name "iota" stupid. >> >> Andrei > > Of course _you_ don't. However practically all the users _do_ find it > poorly named, including other developers in the project.. > This is the umpteenth time this comes up in the NG and incidentally this > is the only reason I know what the function does. > > If the users think the name is stupid than it really is. That's how > usability works and the fact the you think otherwise or that it might be > more accurate mathematically is really not relevant. If you want D/Phobos > to be used by other people besides yourself you need to cater for their > requirements. >
I'd bet that most of the people looking at D's "filtering even numbers" example over at ( https://gist.github.com/817504 ) are thinking, "WTF is 'iota'?" (Either that or "What the hell is he converting to ASCII for?")