std.variant for D1?

Daniel Keep daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 16:41:51 PDT 2007



Walter Bright wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> 0ffh wrote:
>>> Are there any plans of backporting std.variant to D1?
>>> Or is it, apart from any features which might be just
>>> not possible in D1,sufficiently close to Daniel Keeps
>>> variant type that this could be used as a replacement
>>> when compiling for D1?
>>
>> If the answer is no then I think we should start a std2 project on
>> dsource which ports d2 phobos additions to d1.
> 
> There are no plans to add new features to D1, just bug fixes. After all,
> it would not be stable if new stuff kept being added!
> 
> I don't think anyone has tried std.variant on D1, so don't know if it
> works or not.

http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DanielKeep/Variant

It's not exactly the same, but it shares many of the same features.

	-- Daniel



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