Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 03.05.2020 19:42, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I said up-thread, and I repeat: all of the measures to make the
> potential number of hits larger will backfire as long as we don't have
> a good scoring system that almost always puts the most probable hits
> in the first dozen.

Please don't assume your usage-based scoring idea is going to be good 
for everyone. Some like that, some don't.

In fact, it's going to be _terrible_ for discovering an API, simply 
because the user hasn't already used something he's looking for, yet.

> No, I don't have an algorithm for that; I'm not
an expert in this field.  But I do know it's possible, because I see
it every day when I search the Internet.

In the meantime, we have a few existing filtering/scoring algorithms 
that people use already. And the request for prefix-based naming is 
borne out of that usage.