On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:56:14 +0900, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad
<l...@kyllingen.net> wrote:
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.
I agree.
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are superseded by other modules or built-in functionality: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std.boxer - superseded by std.variant
std.contracts - superseded by std.exception
std.cstream - superseded by std.stdio.File
std.demangle - superseded by core.demangle
std.iterator - superseded by std.range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std.perf - superseded by StopWatch
std.regexp - superseded by std.regex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std.syserror - superseded by std.windows.syserror
std.c.* - superseded by core.stdc.* and core.sys.*
The content of std.stdint is "public import core.stdc.stdint;" only.
I think this module doesn't need.
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?)
std.socket should be divided into std.socket, std.event and
std.net(std.dns?).
I said this point in "Breaking changes for std.socket improvement".
Masahiro
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