On Friday, March 09, 2012 09:33:20 deadalnix wrote: > Le 07/03/2012 02:00, F i L a écrit : > > 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. > > We just need a politic for the change. IE: make the old name a warning, > then deprecated, then remove it. Spread the process to a year or so.
We're not changing symbol names without a good reason. Yes, there's a deprecation process that allows us to change them if we need to, but it's still disruptive. - Jonathan M Davis
