in the julian spirit of not abbreviating things (e.g. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/31643). obviously can't happen before 2.0. apologies if this has been discussed before and i missed it.
bjarthur
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rand has been used in many languages and I don't think it's overly obscure. This would be a really spurious change.
JeffBezanson
on 11 Mar 2020
Also, what about related functions? randomnormal, randomexponential, sprandomnormal (or is it sparserandomnormal ?) etc. (unless these are suppressed in 2.0 in favor of rand(om)(Normal()) etc, but this will probably not happen).
rfourquet
on 11 Mar 2020
rand(om)(Normal())
KristofferC
on 11 Mar 2020
i value consistency in naming conventions over conforming to convention in other languages. two extra letters is not that much more verbose. julia is a "fresh approach" afterall-- perfect opportunity for change.
bjarthur
on 12 Mar 2020
Perfect consistency in this regard is not attainable. Are we really going to stop using abbreviations entirely?
JeffBezanson
on 12 Mar 2020
This churn here is unlikely to be worth it. Don't think this needs to be kept open.
KristofferC
on 12 Mar 2020
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randhas been used in many languages and I don't think it's overly obscure. This would be a really spurious change.