I said in an earlier e-mail that I think std.file, std.path, and
std.stdio should remain separate modules. However, I do think that, for
a library with a flat module hierarchy, Phobos has acquired way too many
modules. Some of them should (and will) be removed, and some could be
merged.
The following are my suggestions for how to trim the Phobos module list
a bit. At the bottom I'll show the resulting module list.
Modules which could be removed, most of them *right now*, because they
are superseded by other modules or built-in functionality:
std.bind - use lambdas or nested functions instead
std.boxer - superseded by std.variant
std.contracts - superseded by std.exception
std.cstream - superseded by std.stdio.File
std.demangle - superseded by core.demangle
std.iterator - superseded by std.range
std.openrj - obscure format, better to use std.json
std.perf - superseded by StopWatch
std.regexp - superseded by std.regex
std.stream - ranges are the way to go
std.syserror - superseded by std.windows.syserror
std.c.* - superseded by core.stdc.* and core.sys.*
Modules for which there is no documentation on the D home page, and
which I suspect nobody are using:
std.loader
std.stdarg
std.typelist
Modules which can be merged into a single one, possibly after
substantial/complete rewrites:
std.compiler + std.cpuid + std.system (= std.sysinfo?)
std.ctype + std.uni (= std.character?)
std.date + std.dateparse + std.gregorian + std.stopwatch
(= std.datetime?)
std.encoding + std.utf (= std.encoding?)
std.socket + std.socketstream (= std.socket (or std.net?))
std.typecons + std.typetuple (= std.types?)
And finally, some renaming suggestions (which were actually posed by
Andrei):
std.conv -> std.convert
std.stdio -> std.io
All this gives us the following, nice and short (well... shorter, at
least) module list:
std.algorithm
std.array
std.base64
std.bigint
std.bitmanip
std.character
std.complex
std.concurrency
std.container
std.convert
std.datetime
std.encoding
std.exception
std.file
std.format
std.functional
std.getopt
std.intrinsic
std.io
std.json
std.math
std.md5
std.metastrings
std.mmfile
std.numeric
std.outbuffer
std.path
std.process
std.random
std.range
std.regex
std.signals
std.socket
std.stdint
std.string
std.sysinfo
std.traits
std.types
std.variant
std.xml
std.zip
std.linux
std.windows
Just something to think about.
-Lars
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