The great compromise of the D standard library

0ffh spam at frankhirsch.net
Thu Oct 18 02:09:52 PDT 2007


Sean Kelly wrote:
> Ender KaShae wrote:
>> [...]
>> 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.  [...]

So do I. Some people seem to associate the free functions style with
"low level" and oo style with "high level". It's a mistake I've seen
repeated in this ng over and over again....

Regards, Frank



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