principle of least surprise

[Robert Virding]

Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

>Robert Virding <robert.virding@REDACTED> wrote:
>	I don't really see why people still use the old X/1 type tests,
>	it's not like we added the new ones yesterday.  Especially not savvy
>	users.
>	
>Because there is no new edition of the Book?
>
>Because there are vast amounts of source code examples in
>the Erlang distribution using the old names?
>(A very crude scan of some of the OTP sources I happened to have handy
> showed 5,337 uses of the old type tests, but only 180 of the new ones,
> and those were concentrated in just a few modules.
> Both of these are under-estimates, but the proportion is about right.)
>  
>

Touché!