Standalone AA implementation ready for review (Was: Re: Replacing AA's in druntime)

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Fri Mar 16 01:43:02 PDT 2012


On 2012-03-15 23:59, foobar wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 March 2012 at 10:39:04 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> Why would that pose a problem to DMD? object.d is a regular D module and
> D provides a public import feature. If that fails for some modules it
> should be considered a bug in the compiler.
>
> I disagree about the side of the benefit. This gains us readability of
> code which is IMO a MAJOR benefit. It's not just the object.d module but
> a lot of phobos too.
> It frustrates me to no end Andrei's refusal to accept a design proven to
> work for half a century (which is already utilized by the compiler!) -
> the File System. Choosing instead to duplicate organization features
> inside DDOC as sections. This is a classic example of a code smell.
>

I completely agree.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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