On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 21:05:12 UTC, q66 wrote:
On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 20:50:30 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 09:22:59PM +0200, q66 wrote:
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- AAs integrated in the language; you barely ever use AA
literals and
having them purely in Phobos would help get rid of the
runtime fat, as
well as better implementations
On the contrary, AA's are a major reason I started programming
in D. In
this day and age, it's simply inexcusable to *not* have some
kind of
hash type available by default.
Besides AA literals, library can handle this JUST FINE.
Yeah, but core language AA are so useful it would be a MAJOR
mistake to remove them. In Python too, you could put the AA in
the libraries. Yet everybody uses the AA that are in the language.
Where I DO agree with you is, Phobos should be a two level
library, i.e a minimalistic library, with about the same feature
set as the standard C library + multithreading, and a superset
with the full range of features (ranges, algorithms, etc). I've
already advocated it somewhere else.
