DTL?

[Sean Kelly]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>> I saw mention of DTL in the Andrei/Walter slides.
>>> But it didn't mention who is doing it, where to find it, or if it's 
>>> not available yet, when approximately it would debut.
>>
>> DTL is a now defunct library that was originally developed by Matthew 
>> Wilson.  Its main selling point was an intriguing interpretation of 
>> ranges combined with the usual STL-like containers.  I gather that 
>> such a library is on Walter and Andrei's "to do" list, and it's on 
>> mine as well (in fact, it's the #1 item).
> 
> Yeh, I remember that DTL.  However that's defunct as you say and the 
> "Standard Library" section from the Andrei/Walter presentation contains 
> just one slide and it's titled "DTL" so I took it that they were 
> co-opting the name and starting afresh.

Same here, though inspired by the original I assume.  I think ranges 
were mentioned at the conference when that slide came up.

>>> Also, will it be phobos dependent?
>>
>> 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.

True enough.


Sean