"Phango" container classes

[Robert Fraser]

Charles D Hixson Wrote:

> Alexander Panek wrote:
> > UB wrote:
> >> So, in such way we can have one patched standard lib and
> >> new/additional code can go in phobos_ext.lib
> >> what do you think about it?
> >>
> >> ub
> > 
> > ...that's basically what Tango does, apart from the fact that it's not 
> > an extension, but rather a replacement. The problem of having two 
> > incompatible runtime libraries (the core runtime, that is) still 
> > persists - it is addressed, though........I think I just repeated it the 
> > 95734897th time now.
> 
> Except that installing Tango breaks Phobos.
> 
> (I know, patience.  While I'm being patient, I end up 
> programming in a different language.)

I feel your pain, but D is still a relatively new language, so you probably shouldn't be using it for production code, yet, anyway. By programming in D, you're accepting that the language, as powerful as it is, is definitely not "everything it will be."