On Tuesday, 9 August 2016 at 00:24:40 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Monday, August 08, 2016 19:42:50 Seb via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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std.encoding needs a complete overhaul. Unfortunately, while I
think that that's generally agreed upon, no one has stepped up
to do it. So, who knows when it'll be fixed. However, given
that std.encoding needs an overhaul, I don't seem much point in
moving stuff into it. While it may not be ideal, base64 works
where it is, and we can worry about moving it when std.encoding
is revamped. If we changed it now and then changed it again
when std.encoding got overhauled, then we'd end up breaking
code twice just to move a function around.
- Jonathan M Davis
Thanks @ all for your explanations!
FWIW I have added std.encoding to the wiki's wishlist ;-)
https://wiki.dlang.org/Wish_list#std.encoding
