std.typelist

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 22-06-2012 20:06, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> As was recently pointed out on the Phobos list (
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/CAEnAdhZTcuOL50TeRwCCG=E99nCA_Gh=y=TtHeUGKNuEaC072Q@mail.gmail.com
> ), we technically have std.typelist (which I'd never heard of before that
> post), which Bartosz Milewski put together a few years ago. However, it's
> undocumented and not actually included in the build at all. The question is
> what to do with it.
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/typelist.d
>
> It probably needs a bit of cleanup (e.g. making sure it follows the proper
> naming coventions everywhere), but honestly, I think that it looks pretty
> cool, and it probably wouldn't take much work to make it properly releasable.
>
> Do we want to have someone look it over, take it over, and submit it for
> review? Or do we want to simply give it a look over and fully add it after a
> few tweaks? Or do we want to just toss it altogether? What do we want to do
> with it? We really shouldn't be leaving it sitting there like it is. As it
> stands, it's just forgotten cruft, which is a shame, since it does look pretty
> cool.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>

Yeah, I really think we need to ship this stuff.

I might have a poke at it within the next few days. I suspect some of 
the unit tests might fail due to various changes in the compile-time 
reflection parts of the compiler over the years, so I'll probably have 
to fix those while I'm at it.

-- 
Alex Rønne Petersen
alex at lycus.org
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