On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:24:02 -0800 Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 16, 2010 10:30:03 Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > > The standard library should not have something to please everyone. If > > there is 5 different styles to do the same thing, it will be a failure. > > Agreed. Ideally, the standard library would be very uniform in approach. That > makes it easier to learn and use. If it's schizophrenic about it's approach - > especially if it has multiple ways of doing everything - then it's going to > be > much harder to learn and use. Everyone would be asking why you'd choose one > way > over another and what the differences between them are. It would just cause > confusion. > > Ranges are a key element of how Phobos does things in D2. The truth of the > matter is that if you want to effectively use Phobos, you're going to have to > use > ranges. If ranges aren't appropriate for a particular module or problem, then > they shouldn't be used, but Phobos is generally being built around using > them, > and the more of Phobos which functions in essentially the same way, the > easier > it will be to understand, learn, and use. > > The old code is indeed available for modules which are going to be > deprecated/removed, and the license is usually Boost, so you're pretty free > to > do what you want with it if you prefer it. And there's nothing wrong with > creating your own libraries if you'd prefer. Plenty of folks have done that > in > the past. > > The standard library needs to be fairly uniform in approach, however, and > some > of the current modules are older and don't follow that approach or have > licensing or design issues which were not addressed in the past. Once all of > those modules have been updated, replaced, or removed, Phobos will be more > uniform and its parts will interact better. And over time, it's unlikely that > modules will continue to be deprecated like that. It's happening now because > D2 > Phobos is still fairly early in its evolution. > > - Jonathan M Davis +++ Denis -- -- -- -- -- -- -- vit esse estrany ☣ spir.wikidot.com
