DTL?

[David B. Held]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> [...]
>> There is no reason that such a library would need to depend on either 
>> Phobos or Tango, aside from its possible inclusion in either or both.
> 
> I agree that it would be possible to make it independent of runtime, but 
> it's also easy to think of small things that might thwart that.  Like
> 1) toString
> 2) different std library exception hierarchies
> 3) use of low level library functionality like std.string.format.

Those are good points, but I'm not sure that the containers will 
natively provide an interesting toString() or need to use something like 
std.string.format (but I'd be interested to here places where you think 
that is necessary).  The exception hierarchy is an interesting point, 
but it's possible that DTL will get its own hierarchy, for better or 
worse.  Andrei has indeed done some work on it, but he has lots of 
things to keep him busy, as you can imagine.

Dave