[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.
Allin