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Hi Tim, that's indeed something to consider.

Con(s):

• Backwards-compatibility. Changing a library's name will break existing scripts. General practice is to avoid such drastic changes unless there is a compelling reason to do so.

Pro(s):

• What you mentioned: the library now handles more than Δ47. One may also argue that not many people would use it for Δ48 or Δ49 and not also for Δ47.
• Discoverability: people might rule out using the library if they assume that it only handles Δ47? I try to address this prominently in the readme and "about" tab.

Also, the best suitable name is not obvious to me:

• clumpy covers much more than Δ47/48/49. I don't want to piss off the methane people for instance.
• D4xcrunch is pretty arcane, I suspect many would not get what it's about without going into the readme.
• co2clump et al. is possible, but there are many similar packages out there and I'm not sure what names they all use.
• FWIW, the first ever version of this was called rambaldi. John E. loved it: it's nerdy and arcane. Milo Rambaldi is a fictional, 15th-century character from Alias, who has a fetish for the number 47 and uses it to encrypt various bits of secret code.

Ideally, any name change would still let people use import D47crunch for backwards-compatibility. I can look into how it's usually done. Turns out this is probably easy to achieve.

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Are the methane people not familiar with how to do a pull request? :)

Those are all good and interesting points. I'm not familiar with Alias, but I can see why rambaldi would please someone who is!

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