On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 23:44:49 Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > it's harder to find symbols > > i don't understand this argument. > > ``` > dscanner --declaration startsWith > ./std/algorithm/searching.d(4105:6) > ./std/algorithm/searching.d(4195:6) > ./std/algorithm/searching.d(4265:6) > ./std/algorithm/searching.d(4301:6) > ```
I have no intention whatsoever of using dscanner. I can do something similar with grep, but either way, that doesn't help anyone who's actually reading the documentation and trying to find stuff that way, which is often what people do. Regardless, the more split up stuff is, the more places that you have to look for it. We already have plenty of complaints about folks not knowing whether something is in std.algorithm, std.array, std.range, and std.string without getting into issues of sub-modules. And I really don't understand why splitting up a module like std.array would help anything except maybe import times, but that only matters if the module is large (which std.array definitely isn't) and if you're importing the modules as specifically as possible and not using public imports through something like std.array.package. - Jonathan M Davis