On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:26 AM Nigel Tao <nigel...@golang.org> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 9:20 PM Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, there's already context.Context, hash.Hash, image.Image and
> time.Time in the standard library. Perhaps, in a parallel universe, we
> could have settled on the testing.T naming style, but that's all
> academic, at this point.
Those names are set in stone by the Go 1 compatibility guarantee. The
interesting, but hypothetical, question is, if possible and revisited now,
whether a better name would be chosen. It's not always possible, I guess.
Still, when it _is_, the more informative type name should be IMO
preferred. big.{Int,Float,Rat} was already mentioned, but it should be
added, that the math/big package started with only the big.Int type, not
big.Big or big.BigtInt type.
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