[Mid-discussion Summary] Proposal: add new Data.Bits.Bits(bitZero) method

[Edward Kmett]

Henning,

As far as I know the only serious proponent of using qualified imports for
all imports *all* the time is you.

Name conflicts don't affect you. We get that. We got that loud and clear
virtually every time the naming of pretty much anything has arisen on this
mailing list for the last few years.

That doesn't change the fact that your practice and common practice diverge.

I'm hard pressed to like an option that causes pain for the sloppy majority.

-Edward


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Henning Thielemann <
schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

> Am 24.02.2014 18:57, schrieb Brandon Allbery:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Henning Thielemann
>> <schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de
>> <mailto:schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de>> wrote:
>>
>>     Am 24.02.2014 18 <tel:24.02.2014%2018>:34, schrieb Twan van
>> Laarhoven:
>>
>>
>>         I agree with Edward that it would be better to reserve 'zero' for
>>         something like an additive identity.
>>
>>
>>     Why would you want to reserve Bits.zero for an additive zero? This
>>     makes no sense.
>>
>>
>> There is something vaguely smelly about specifically omitting the context
>>
>>  > it is an annoyingly common name to take for
>>
>>> such an often unqualified import.
>>>
>>
>> in the original message. Yes, we're quite aware you do not consider it
>> legitimate. Distorting someone else's meaning to press your point is
>> also not legitimate.
>>
>
> The phrase "reserve 'zero'" suggests that once we choose Bits.zero, the
> identifier 'zero' is reserved once and for all and cannot be used for
> something different anymore. That is, this phrasing removes the option of
> qualified imports from the scope and thus generates the wrong context.
>
> Can someone please, please tell me why we must avoid qualified imports at
> all costs? Why is this option repeatedly ignored when just saying zeroBits
> (+1) or zero (-1)?
>
>
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