Tango Group Imports

[John Reimer]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>> Dear D community,
>> In a response to community requests for fewer imports in Tango programs,
>> especially for the smaller ones, we have created an experimental package
>> called "group". This contains several modules, each publicly importing a
>> themed collection of Tango modules. For example: tango.group.net and
>> tango.group.stream. 
> 
> Like the idea, not so wild about the name.
> 
> How about "api"?  To use the collections API you say tango.api.collection.
> 
> Or focus on the simplicity:
>   tango.simple.*
>   tango.flat.*
>   tango.direct.*
>   tango.easy.*
>   tango.ez.*  // short to type!
> 
> Or even 'use'/'using' might be slick:
>   tango.use.collection;
>   tango.using.collection;
> 
> Or 'lib':
>   import tango.lib.collection;
> 
> Or thinking of shortest possible words (because it's for convenience to 
> begin with):
> 
>   tango.go.collection
>   tango.by.collection
>   tango.hi.collection // as in hello collections!
>   tango.my.collection
>   tango.of.collection
>   tango.ye.collection // for that olde worlde feel!
>   tango.on.collection
>   tango.to.collection // dance on over to the collection department
>   tango.up.collection
>   tango.ez.collection
> 
> Or go with the "tango" theme and use a spanish word:
>   tango.el.collection
>   tango.la.collection
>   tango.dela.collection
>   tango.del.collection
>   tango.del.tacos
> 
> Or maybe a less generic word than "group":
>   tango.suite.collection
>   tango.pkg.collection
> 
> 
> 
> But after all that, I like "api" best, because it's short and seems to 
> describe well what it does. You want to use the collections api with no 
> fuss? then tango.api.collection is for you!
> 
> 
> 
> --bb
> 


Same here. I'm not so excited about "group" for some reason.

"use" or "using" is an unusual idea, but strangely attractive. It goes 
against the grain by using a participle in a package naming scheme... 
but it could be an good way to differentiate the flat scheme from the 
standard tango namespace.

Also liked your suggestions of "suite" and "lib".

-JJR