[Gretl-devel] Re: about the name "fft2"

On Sun, 11 Jul 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 11.07.2021 um 19:15 schrieb Artur T.: >> Am 09.07.21 um 19:01 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > >>> - ...or biting the backwards-incompatibility bullet and change the >>> original fft() to do what fft2() does now. (My quick check doesn't show >>> any package that uses fft anymore, so no breakage expected there.) >> >> "fft" might be a reasonable name as this abbreviation is well-known I >> would say. > > Well, no doubt it's reasonable, as it has been the name for years. But > what do you think about the backward incompatibility? I'm inclined to go for it: replace the current legacy fft with what's now fft2, but keep "fft2" as an alias.