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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 9106] New: Rename std.random.randomShuffle as std.random.shuffle

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           Summary: Rename std.random.randomShuffle as std.random.shuffle
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Phobos
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: bearophile_hugs eml.cc



I suggest to rename the function "std.random.randomShuffle()" to just
"std.random.shuffle()". There is no other "shuffle" name in Phobos. And one of
the points of the module system is to avoid prefixes like that.

Othrwise why the other funtions aren't named randomUniform, randomRandom, etc?

See also what the Python Pep8 says about this topic:


 There's also the style of using a short unique prefix to group related names
 together. This is not used much in Python, but it is mentioned for
 completeness. For example, the os.stat() function returns a tuple whose items
 traditionally have names like st_mode, st_size, st_mtime and so on. (This is
 done to emphasize the correspondence with the fields of the POSIX system call
 struct, which helps programmers familiar with that.)
 
 The X11 library uses a leading X for all its public functions. In Python,
 this style is generally deemed unnecessary because attribute and method names
 are prefixed with an object, and function names are prefixed with a module
 name.



The old name should be left as deprecated alias for some time.

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Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> changed:

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PST ---
Due to the issues regarding random number generator ranges being value types
instead of reference types, there's a decent chance that we're going to end up
with a std.random2 in the semi-near future. It would make sense to make this
sort of change when we do that.

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 Due to the issues regarding random number generator ranges being value types
 instead of reference types, there's a decent chance that we're going to end up
 with a std.random2 in the semi-near future. It would make sense to make this
 sort of change when we do that.


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Luís Marques <luismarques gmail.com> changed:

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PDT ---
Let me add that I too was surprised when shuffle() didn't work, and by looking
at the docs discovered that the correct name was randomShuffle().

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