Yah, the problem with "commonly used" is that everybody's commonly used
subset is different.
std.all for the win!
Andrei
On 06/08/2010 03:50 PM, David Simcha wrote:
I'm afraid having std.common would turn into Bikeshed War III unless it
included so many things that it was practically a std.all module
anyhow. For example, do regexes belong? I personally tend to prefer
plain old string processing for most things and use regexes only when
there's a real need. Others tend to prefer regexes as their "default
hammer". Does std.math belong? I write lots of math-heavy code, so I'd
say yes. People who don't write math-heavy code would probably say no.
Does std.date go in? I never use it, but people writing more
business-y, less math-y code probably use it all the time.
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Robert Clipsham
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 08/06/10 21:18, Walter Bright wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Actually I've generated std.all myself and experimented with it
(attached). The parse time with rdmd is larger than with
individual
modules, but not annoying.
The parse time will invariably grow as phobos grows. I expect
std.all
will become the preferred method of using D. The problems are:
1. People will come to expect std.all to have everything and the
kitchen
sink in it, so we're stuck.
2. People will inevitably do compile speed benchmarks with
std.all. And
then we'll suck.
So I say "no" to std.all.
Given that it's meant as an easy way to include the commonly used
functions etc, rather than all, how about a std.common along side
it? Where std.common imports commonly used code by scripts etc, and
std.all imports anything that isn't std.common? This way it's the
best of both worlds.
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