Hi,
There's a pull request to enhance std.container.make:
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_container.html#make
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/756
'make' is basically a generic wrapper for both 'new' expressions and
struct construction. It also adds makeNew, makeArray and makeStaticArray.
As std.container is not really the place for construction of
non-container types, the request moves 'make' to std.conv, because
'emplace' is already there, and the two are perhaps related. I don't
think make or emplace being in std.conv really makes much sense,
particularly not make.
std.typecons was also considered, but make is not a type constructor,
it's an instance constructor. Also std.typecons may turn out to be a
very big module just from actual type constructors alone.
Thinking about this, I thought perhaps a new module std.construct was
warranted. Expanding the scope of construction to lifetime issues,
calling it std.lifetime would be more general.
The following existing symbols might benefit from being moved to a
std.lifetime module, with aliases replacing their existing symbols:
std.container.make
std.conv.emplace
std.typecons.scoped
std.typecons.RefCounted
std.algorithm.initializeAll
Collecting these similar items together should make it easier for
newcomers to find them.
Thoughts?
