On Thursday, December 22, 2011 08:34:23 Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2011-12-22 04:57, Walter Bright wrote: > > My first thought is that std.datetime is already very large. Few will > > need a custom date formatter, so it should be in a separate module to: > > > > 1. reduce cognitive load on the programmer > > > > 2. reduce the overhead pulled in for every program that may want to use > > an std.datetime function, but not need custom formatting > > As I've said several times, std.datetime is way too large and should be > a package.
That's the way that it was originally proposed (albeit split in a poor manner), and a number of people (particularly Phobos devs) were against it, and have been any time that I've suggested splitting out part of it. The fact that Phobos has historically shunned sub-packages probably has a lot to do with that (though we're starting to have some). To make it a package at this point would probably break a fair bit of code unless it were a new package which std.datetime publicly imported, so simply making std.datetime a package isn't necessarily a great idea, and there's a definite benefit IMHO in being able to just import it all with one import. But it's not necessarily unreasonable to create a new package which holds the various pieces and have std.datetime import them all. - Jonathan M Davis
