On Thursday, 4 October 2012 at 04:30:56 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Changing the name would just generate more confusion, and if we
were to change
it for a hypothetical D3, it would be even worse than changing
it now, because
by then, way more people would be familiar with the term range.
You wouldn't
start using a new term for iterators just because you managed
to find a term
which was ostentsibly better would you? That would just confuse
people to no
end. And even if it's not that way with ranges quite yet, it'll
be close
enough by the time we even consider creating a new version of
the language.
That's a good point. I guess that train has passed then.
