[erlang-questions] Removal of the keyword 'query'.

[Steve Davis]

Yes, I was :) In an API, you'd probably be cursed by users for creating 
a so-named function, and forcing the frequent use of something like:

my_datasource:'query'(...)

In the general flow of development, using such an export, it would also 
be quite easy to write by mistake:

my_datasource:query(...)

...since that's what you are thinking naturally. And that is just a 
distracting way of causing avoidable compile-time errors had you chosen 
a different atom...

...so one does tend to avoid it. It is inconvenient, albeit just an 
inconvenience. However, there seems no reason for it any more.

Matthias Lang wrote:
> On Sunday, August 15, Steve Davis wrote:
> (It could be that you were already aware of how to use single quotes,
> though the "highly inconvenient" description suggests otherwise.)