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   • Rich Felker
   • nxadm

   @mirabilos @dalias @nxadm wow, "status changed to Unfortunate" https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9#issuecomment-66047478

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     • nxadm

     @hyc @mirabilos @nxadm If only the company doing the naming had a tool that could look for existing conflicting uses of the name before settling on it...

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     • Rich Felker
     • nxadm

     @mirabilos @dalias @nxadm tbf, I sympathize. After all, naming is one of the two hardest problems in computer science (along with cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors). And I had to rename LMDB shortly after its release, to avoid confusion with other projects... it's tough to come up with good names.