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Karl Williamson wrote: > I think it is a good idea to at least give people an opportunity to have > a name that doesn't mislead, even if we keep the old name for back > compatibility. I've done that several times in the core. The problem > with a misleading name is that it, well, misleads. Even if you know > about it, in skimming code, you can be misled. But in the end having four different ways to write AvFILL is more con- fusing than the situation we started with. (And av_tindex does not seem at all an intuitive name to me.) > So, I support adding a synonym. I do not. The main reasons for using the function are to work around problems with buggy XS modules. Adding a synonym for a function that most correct code should not be using seems like the wrong direction to be going in.Thread Previous | Thread Next