The great compromise of the D standard library

Sean Kelly sean at f4.ca
Wed Oct 17 16:30:48 PDT 2007


Ender KaShae wrote:
> I have great misgivings over the divide among the D community between standard libriraries.  The contintion will no doubt eventually lead to a  schism reduce the reusibility of D code.  I suggest the following compromise:
> 
> 1.) Phobos and Tango are combined into a single Standard library, as Phobos seems to be lower level, it would make sense for Tango to call Phobos functions and for alias's to be made between equivilent entities that exist in both libraries

I'll leave the remaining points to others, but I believe this assessment 
is incorrect.  One could argue that Tango scales higher than Phobos, but 
both are equivalent in terms of low-level coverage.  The design is 
merely different.


Sean



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