Announcing a new library

[Sean Kelly]

Lutger wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> It is our pleasure to announce the existence of a new application 
>> library named Tango.  Originally born from discussions about how to 
>> better integrate Mango and Ares, Tango has since grown substantially 
>> in scope, design, and participation to something that truly outshines 
>> its humble beginnings.  More than a simple collection of tools, it is 
>> our belief that Tango is a framework on top of which to build robust 
>> and extensible D libraries and applications.  And as we feel the 
>> availability of solid and extensive documentation represents a prime 
>> factor in library accessibility, Tango features a robust and growing 
>> set of documentation, examples, and tutorials.  A beta code release 
>> will follow shortly after the D 1.0 milestone, but in the interim here 
>> is an outline of some of its features:
> ....
> 
> A little late, but I have one question. There has been some talk about 
> an iterator design and I believe even a consensus on how that would look 
> like. I would love to see a (de facto or formal) standard iterator in D, 
> is this something that might be provided by Tango in the future?

Yes.  The containers package contains an iterator design but I'm not 
sure it's currently generalized enough to suit what has been discussed 
in the newsgroups.  Our concern at the moment is to get documentation to 
a sufficient state before release, but I'm going to try and make some 
time to at least begin evaluating the iterators as well.


Sean