I personally find it much easier to remember and use longer, more
sentance-like method names. However, Jonathan and others
obviously feel more comfortable writing with a high level of
abbreviation, which they justify rather well. Still, if D's goal
is to gain popularity, I think it should take notices of other
rising languages like C#.
The problem with making any change to Phobos is backwards
compatibility. So, what if there was a way to satisfy both
parties and keep backwards compatibility? Is there any compelling
reason why simply wrapping Phobos into a different format would
be such bad thing? Meaning:
// system.io
private import std.stdio;
alias write Write;
alias writeln WriteLine;
// etc...
Besides keeping things in-sync and error messages referring to
the original function names (which could be amended), I don't see
why such a library couldn't be written as a way to make the
language easier to swallow to potential D users coming from
Java/C#. Microsoft used similar tactics with J#/F# to help the
Java/Python folks adapt their code to .NET.
