standard library vs standard interfaces

Hasan Aljudy hasan.aljudy at gmail.com
Sat Jan 20 21:36:11 PST 2007



Serg Kovrov wrote:
> There were always trends to throw away Phobos as standard library in 
> flavor of some other like Ares, Tango, or whatever. The problem is there 
> are lot of code (I'd say most of it) that hard-coupled with current 
> standard library.
> 
> So why not define well-thought, 'official' set of 'standard interfaces' 
> (and standard implementation), as opposite to 'standard library'. It is 
> not necessary for a library to fully support all interfaces, of course. 
> We could have than any number of third party libraries to work with, in 
> a 'standardized' way.
> 

My impressions is, the interface of the current standard library 
(phobos) IS the standard interface.



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