Why changes like this are even a thing?

[American2050 8]

I was wondering why between version and versions we get minor changes like

 

1.10.2

Minecraft.getMinecraft().theWorld;

 

1.11.2

Minecraft.getMinecraft().world;

 

Is it really that important to rename those things, what's the overall idea behind this changes?

 

Well, just wondering this, thanks for the feedback.

[diesieben07 5462]

The idea is to slowly but surely clean up old cruft that has built up in the mappings. It just makes things more pleasant to work with if you can do

 Minecraft.getMinecraft().player.sendMessage

instead of

Minecraft.getMinecraft().The player.addChatComponentMessage

. And this is just the first I've come up with.

[American2050 8]

Ohh ok. Yes that was other one I was having to change while updating to 1.11.2 the Chat messages.

 

Interesting, and for sure, it makes things more clear and nice looking.

[diesieben07 5462]

While looking at another thread I came across another class that just hat atrocious method names before: MathHelper.