Polishing D - suggestions and comments

Don Clugston dac at nospam.com.au
Wed Jan 30 00:06:26 PST 2008


Kris wrote:
> "Sean Kelly" <sean at f4.ca> wrote in message 
> news:fnih3r$2vvp$2 at digitalmars.com...
>> Christopher Wright wrote:
>>> Tango has a lot more things that hold data than Phobos. Collections and
>>> datetimes, for instance. Some things it keeps as static struct methods,
>>> like WallClock.Now, for namespaces. The only thing I've really noticed,
>>> browsing through the source, is formatting and console IO being provided
>>> by classes. That's about three classes, total, that I've seen that could
>>> be done away with.
>> They could be wrapped in functions perhaps, but not done away with
>> entirely.  The formatting code lives in a class because it integrates
>> with the i8n features in Tango.  However, I think one could argue that
>> there should be a pre-existing, global formatter instance.
> 
> 
> (which there is, for utf8)

If even Sean doesn't know that, then there's *really* an advertising problem <g>.



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