phobos dependencies

[Meta]

On Thursday, 19 December 2013 at 00:23:47 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 December 2013 at 23:51:06 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> Of course, another large boon would be to correct the 
>> implementation of:
>>
>> import std.algorithm: sort, find, splitter, swap;
>>
>> So that it actually works in a sane way as opposed to pulling 
>> in everything.
>
> I don't see how it is even theoretically possible. You still 
> need to lex/parse whole file to locate needed symbols (and 
> semantic phases are already lazy in most cases afaik)

Maybe it's not possible, I'm not well versed on how the compiler 
works. But I think that one module per algorithm may be too 
granular. Hasn't someone suggested splitting it up by category, 
e.g., sorting, mutation, searching, etc.?