std.regexp vs std.regex [Re: RegExp.find() now crippled]

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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:24:02 -0800
Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, November 16, 2010 10:30:03 Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> > The standard library should not have something to please everyone.  If
> > there is 5 different styles to do the same thing, it will be a failure.
> 
> Agreed. Ideally, the standard library would be very uniform in approach. That 
> makes it easier to learn and use. If it's schizophrenic about it's approach - 
> especially if it has multiple ways of doing everything - then it's going to be 
> much harder to learn and use. Everyone would be asking why you'd choose one way 
> over another and what the differences between them are. It would just cause 
> confusion.
> 
> Ranges are a key element of how Phobos does things in D2. The truth of the 
> matter is that if you want to effectively use Phobos, you're going to have to use 
> ranges. If ranges aren't appropriate for a particular module or problem, then 
> they shouldn't be used, but Phobos is generally being built around using them, 
> and the more of Phobos which functions in essentially the same way, the easier 
> it will be to understand, learn, and use.
> 
> The old code is indeed available for modules which are going to be 
> deprecated/removed, and the license is usually Boost, so you're pretty free to 
> do what you want with it if you prefer it. And there's nothing wrong with 
> creating your own libraries if you'd prefer. Plenty of folks have done that in 
> the past.
> 
> The standard library needs to be fairly uniform in approach, however, and some 
> of the current modules are older and don't follow that approach or have 
> licensing or design issues which were not addressed in the past. Once all of 
> those modules have been updated, replaced, or removed, Phobos will be more 
> uniform and its parts will interact better. And over time, it's unlikely that 
> modules will continue to be deprecated like that. It's happening now because D2 
> Phobos is still fairly early in its evolution.
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis

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