dcollections 1.0 and 2.0a beta released

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 05/19/2010 09:59 PM, Robert Jacques wrote:
>> Yes and No. I understand where your coming from, but I think it's a bad
>> idea. First, I think it needlessly expands the radius of comprehension
>> needed to understand and use the library. (See Tangled up in tools
>> http://www.pragprog.com/magazines/2010-04/tangled-up-in-tools)
> 
> For the record, I strongly agree with this.

I do too, but that's the easy part. Living up to those ideals is extremely hard, 
usually because most designers think they have designed simple interfaces when 
everyone else thinks they didn't.

In this whole container discussion, I'd like to point out something Andrei 
pointed out to me. The one extremely successful example of pluggable components 
is the unix filter model. Essentially, one program pipes its output to the next, 
which pipes its output to the next, etc. The unix console is designed around 
that paradigm.

If we can get anywhere close to that level of success with ranges and 
containers, we should all be well pleased.