Red black trees

[Walter Bright]

Kyle Furlong wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Red black trees are one of those basic collection types that should be 
>> available. Anyone want to write one for D for placement into Phobos?
> 
> Did anyone else read this and go "WTH"? Wouldn't it be better to 
> actually bless a community based standard library effort, than take 
> submissions piecemeal whenever you feel like it? Sure red black trees 
> are a basic collection that most people will need at some point, but why 
>  isn't it being made part of a larger templated collections portion of 
> the library?
> 
> I know for a fact that there is a group of people who would gladly take 
> up the standard library torch and run with it, people who would be 
> accountable to you and the community, with open source, documentation, 
> and a roadmap for development.
> 
> Its this kind of lack of vision which I think will retard D's evolution 
> into a production language, so that it forever remains at the level of 
> hobbyist hackery.

I would welcome it if you (or anyone else) makes a proposal for a set of 
to-be-implemented collection classes.