On Thursday, 31 January 2013 at 19:04:05 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 07:53:58PM +0100, Zach the Mystic wrote:
On Thursday, 31 January 2013 at 15:38:04 UTC, Don wrote:
>I'm not sure that we can solve this without addressing the
>high-level question: What is the scope of Phobos?
>
>How big will it eventually get? Twice its current size? Ten
>times?
>A hundred times?
Purely by chance I read an article on the blog of Jarrett
Billingsley about this topic:
http://www.jfbillingsley.com/blog/?p=206
Interesting. I think Phobos can be easily divided into two
parts, with
core stuff like std.algorithm, std.range, std.stdio, etc., in
one, and
less common but still widely applicable stuff like numeric
algorithms in
a "2nd party" library (or libraries).
Even if we don't actually split Phobos up in that way, this may
help us
reorganize Phobos in a better way. The current flat std
hierarchy is
slowly approaching the point where it's starting to tear at the
seams.
We should consider starting a 3rd level of hierarchy sooner
rather than
later.
T
I don't know if this is relevant, but I find Jarret's writings to
be quite brilliant. He designed a Lua-like language called miniD,
based partly on D, but renamed Croc after he left the D
community. I feel like I've learned a lot about programming just
by reading the spec for his language.
