Re: A review of changes between 5.1 and 5.2-work3

[Drake Wilson <drake@...>]

Quoth Peter Cawley <lua@corsix.org>, on 2010-05-21 16:31:17 +0100:
> I'd argue that "arg" is a usual contraction of "argument", whereas
> "typ" is not a usual contraction of "type".

Actually, I frequently use "typ" as a contraction of "type", most
commonly in languages where "type" is a reserved word, but also in C
and sometimes other places.  I agree that it's probably rare.

I'd prefer to keep the old name if only because there's no semantic
change and I don't think the name was bad enough to warrant rippling
source changes through extensions, but it doesn't matter _that_ much
in the presence of a compatibility alias.

   ---> Drake Wilson