Review Queue: Should We Start Reviews Again?

[Walter Bright]

On 7/28/2012 5:51 PM, dsimcha wrote:
> Apparently nothing's been getting reviewed for inclusion in Phobos lately, and
> the review queue has once again become fairly long according to the wiki
> (http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?ReviewQueue).  I also noticed that a new XML
> library is already in the review queue.
>
> Is there some reason why none of this stuff is being reviewed? If std.xml2 is
> really ready for review, we should review this ASAP since XML processing is
> fundamental functionality for a modern standard library in a high-level language.
>
> IIRC the current std.xml's inadequacy was a major complaint that Jacob
> Carolberg, the author of std.serialize, had.  Perhaps when/if std.xml2 is
> accepted, he should modify std.serialize to use it, and std.serialize should be
> next in the queue.

I did a quick look at std.xml2, and noticed that it did not have a range 
interface. All Phobos modules that accept input data and write to output should 
use a range interface.