There are lots of things that look like great methods, but experience with them often leads to disillusionment. For another example, Hungarian notation is a really great idea, heavily adopted by Microsoft Windows, and just does not deliver on its promises.
For example, types can have long names, but that doesn't work with HN. Changing a declaration to have a different type then means you've got endless cascading identifiers that need to be redone. And so on.
