std.uni vs std.unicode and beyond?

[deadalnix]

On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 17:31:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 5/21/13 1:27 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Then we can correctly judge whether the name change is worth 
>> doing. I
>> don't know that it is. std.uni is not immediately recognizable 
>> as
>> something else, so it warrants a lookup in the docs. Yes, less 
>> obvious,
>> but not horrifically misnamed. I don't think it's worth the 
>> effort to
>> rename at this point unless it's shown that nearly nobody uses 
>> it.
>
> I agree. I'd personally love it if std.unicode replaced 
> std.uni, but at this point the rename is insufficiently 
> motivated. It's not like people go, "hmmm I need some Unicode 
> stuff, let me see if std.unicode is there. No? The hell with 
> it, I'm moving to another language."
>
>
> Andrei

It isn't really a rename as a new module is being integrated. We 
can keep what we have under std.uni for a while. If you want the 
new hotness, go for std.unicode .