D Language Quarterly Meeting Summary for January 2021

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 05:09:51PM +0000, Alexandru Ermicioi via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 January 2022 at 05:43:55 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> > On Friday, 21 January 2022 at 12:33:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> > > ### Andrei
> > > Andrei brought up std.v2, but this is where memory fails me. What I
> > > do recall is that there was a bit of talk about the std.v2 namespace
> > > and how it will live alongside std, and this came up because Robert
> > > isn't convinced the planned approach is the right way to go about
> > > it. If Andrei or anyone else would like to say more about what was
> > > discussed, please post something below.
> > 
> > IMO having the `std` and `std.v2` namespaces exist alongside each other
> > *in the official D distribution* would be a mistake, and would make the
> > language significantly less approachable for new users.
> 
> Imho, current design where obsolete modules are moved from phobos to undead
> is a lot better. Just keep newest stuff in phobos and move old one in undead
> repo. Projects still relying on old  functionality, can easily just import
> old module from undead project and continue using old functionality, until
> they move to newest one.

Is undead versioned? If Phobos starts innovating again, we may need to
keep multiple old versions in undead for old codebases to continue
working.


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