Polishing D - suggestions and comments

[Sean Kelly]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Daniel wrote:
> 
>> Jarrod Wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:32:45 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for taking the time to write this. I think your suggestions are
>>>> very good.
>>> I think I should ask you here since it's in context with the
>>> Phobos suggestions.
>>> What are you planning to do with Tango?
>>>
>>> Personally I prefer the Phobos API for it's naming, organisation and
>>> documentation, but I also like the extra features tango adds and of
>>> course I don't want to say no to a faster garbage collector and less
>>> bugs, which leaves me torn.
>>>
>>> Perhaps it might be time to replace Phobos, or (even better) officially
>>> merge the two libraries? Better now than later.
>> Walter is, and ought to be, focusing his efforts on the language more than
>> the libraries.
>>
>> Oddly, I would argue that all libraries are simply stop-gap fixes for
>> missing or poorly implemented language features; indeed most programming
>> code tends to be.
>>
>> However, D has phobos, there was mango, now tango, and work has been done
>> on a tangobos.  The fact that the library keeps changing shows that D's
>> language features actually have an impact, as they frequently replace or
>> integrate library features.
> 
> Mango doesn't fit into the equation as it never was meant to do what Tango
> is doing, it just happened to have functionality that fit better in Tango.
> As for Tangobos, it is just a version of Phobos that is made to work (as
> much as possible) with the runtime in Tango.

It's perhaps worth noting that 99% of the code in Tangobos is identical
to Phobos.  std.thread is one of only a few modules with any changes
whatsoever, and probably the only module with any user-visible changes.


Sean