On Wednesday, 11 July 2012 at 16:45:17 UTC, David Piepgrass wrote:
Anyway I think short vs long is much ado about nothing. No one complains that we have to type "int" instead of "integer", after all. Most languages have only a few keywords, which people quickly learn. As long as all the standard library functions are well-named, I don't care about the language keywords.
Okay, I actually care a lot, just about the meaning of the keyword and not about whether it's abbreviated. I think D's use of "enum" for "static constant" and "static" for "thread singleton" (and three or four other things) is quite unfortunate, albeit understandable given the C heritage.
