(Was: On 80 columns should (not) be enough for everyone)

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:09:01 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 01/31/2011 01:18 AM, foobar wrote:

>> You completely miss the most important principle - it doesn't matter
>> how good and efficient your product is if no one's using it. Phobos
>> is a very good product that I for one will never use. Just looking at
>> the one huge page for algorithms is enough to discourage many
>> people.
>
>  From what I've seen, everyone who advocates D2 mentions std.algorithm  
> as one of its main strengths, and never as a liability. I have  
> difficulty reconciling that signal with one opinion relayed anonymously.

I think the main problem is with ddoc.  This, from std.algorithm is a  
f**king mess IMO:

Jump to: BoyerMooreFinder EditOp Group NWayUnion OpenRight SetDifference  
SetIntersection SetSymmetricDifference SetUnion SortOutput Splitter  
SwapStrategy Uniq Until balancedParens boyerMooreFinder bringToFront  
canFind completeSort copy count endsWith equal fill filter find  
findAdjacent findAmong group indexOf initializeAll insert isPartitioned  
isSorted largestPartialIntersection largestPartialIntersectionWeighted  
levenshteinDistance levenshteinDistanceAndPath makeIndex map max min  
minCount minPos mismatch move moveAll moveSome nWayUnion no none  
partialSort partition reduce remove reverse schwartzSort semistable  
setDifference setIntersection setSymmetricDifference setUnion skipOver  
sort splitter stable startsWith substitute swap swapRanges topN topNCopy  
uninitializedFill uniq unstable until yes

(in voice of comic-book guy) Worst navigation bar ever.

-Steve