About the Expressiveness of D

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, April 05, 2013 13:13:29 Chad Joan wrote:
> On 04/02/2013 10:44 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > I think it leads to writing less repetitive unittests.
> > 
> > If we did datetime all over again, I'd give a budget of 2000 lines for
> > all functionality. I bet the solution would be better.
> > 
> > 
> > Andrei
> 
> My problem with datetime is that it is too monolithic. I really wish it
> was split into about 3 different modules. This is frustrating from a
> user-perspective. The docs for that thing can easily make someone's
> eyes gloss over.
> 
> If you split it up, then the LOC per module would become smaller too, as
> a side-effect.

If/Once some variant of DIPs 15 or 16 is implemented, we'll be able to 
transparently turn modules into packages - making the package have the same 
name as the old module and split what was in the old module across multiple 
modules in the new package. Code will then work exactly as before, importing 
the package as it were a module but allowing you to import the modules in the 
package directly in new code if you want to. Then we'll be able to split up 
larger modules like std.algorithm or std.datetime if we want to - without 
breaking anyone's code.

Once that's available, I have every intention of splitting up std.datetime 
into separate modules, but doing so before that would break code, which I 
don't want to do.

- Jonathan M Davis