On 9/20/11, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote: > We specifically avoid having aliases in Phobos simply for having alternate > function names. Aliases need to actually be useful, or they shouldn't be > there.
And function names have to be useful to library users. walkLength is an awful name for something that returns the character count. If you ask a GUI developer to look for a function that creates a rectangle path, you can be sure he'll start looking for Rectangle or DrawRect or something similar, and not "ClosedShapePointN!4" or something that generic.
