Re: JSON Function Bike Shedding

On Feb 19, 2013, at 6:11 AM, Petr Jelinek <pjmodos@pjmodos.net> wrote:

>> some of the points you raise are valid, but in my (minority) opinion
>> overloading creates more problems than it solves.  You're not going to
>> convince me that get() is *ever* a good name for a function - you might as
>> well call it thing() or foo() for all the useful information that name
> conveys.
>
> Let me join the minority here, +1

Well, that's why I called them get_json() and get_text(). Basically, I don't mind that the function name says something
aboutthe return type. 

Best,

David