On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 15:04:21 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 16:03:14 UTC, rumbu wrote:
Are you sure that you are talking about phobos and not tango?
:)
I'm eager to find how I'm uninformed.
Tango doesn't use UFCS, while phobos and .net framework are big
on extension methods. Also tango uses object oriented console
IO, while phobos and .net framework use procedural style for it.
Do you know anything else in the .net library than LINQ where
extension methods (somehow equivalent to UFCS) are abused? I
thought that something happened in the .net world while I was
asleep, that's why I just searched my local copy of .net core and
there are exactly 198 extension methods. I would not call these
"big".
The Tango remark was just a pun (R.I.P.), since it looked 90%
similar to .net. And what would make Tango unusable with UFCS? Is
it not written in D?
Last time I checked, .net Console was an enormous static class
with three Stream objects behind the scenes.
When I said that phobos looks like a mess compared to .net lib I
referred especially to the poor choice of names (eg. RedBlackTree
vs SortedDictionary) and lack of essential stuff (eg. happy to
have levenshteinDistance built in, but I cannot sort correctly
two strings in any other language than English).
