containers/collections for phobos

[Tim Matthews]

On 19/12/2009 3:12 p.m., Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:01:40 -0500, Jonathan M Davis
> <jmdavisProg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was just wondering what the current plans were for
>> containers/collections
>> in phobos. Right now, there aren't any. It is, in my opinion at least, by
>> far the largest drawback to phobos. Certainly, I think that that's the
>> greatest advantage that tango has over phobos. Container classes are
>> one of
>> the first things that I look for in a standard library, and in that
>> respect,
>> phobos is sorely lacking.
>
> I'm not sure if it will be acceptable for inclusion into Phobos, but
> dcollections *will* be ported to D2. It already is a viable option for
> D1 phobos.
>
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dcollections
>
> -Steve

I haven't actually looked at that code but my thoughts on this anyway:

If ranges are to stay then if possible I would like to see any 
collection implementation designed to work well along side them rather 
than many different inconsistent ways to achieve the same thing.