obsolete D libraries/modules

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/3/13 8:20 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/2/13 7:16 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> On 9/2/13, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
>>> This is a simple idea:
>>>
>>> uint timeout;
>>> getopt(args, "timeout|t", &timeout).help("Set the timeout");
>>
>> W.r.t. help strings, I would prefer if we could instead use:
>>
>> getopt(args,
>>    "timeout|t", &timeout, "Set the timeout",
>>    "other", &other,  // note: no comment!
>>    "flag|f", &flag, "Set the flag")
>>
>> I think we could make getopt support this. For example:
>>
>> ["foo", &foo] => name, field
>> ["foo", &foo, "foo text"] => name, field, #3 is a comment
>> ["foo", &foo, "foo text", "bar", &bar] => #3 is a commen
>> ["foo", &foo, "foo text", &bar] => #3 is a new name
>>
>> Essentially all getopt has to do is slice up the arguments into
>> groups, where an address and the string before it begin a new group.
>>
>> @Andrei: What do you think?
>
> Sounds great. There's a related bugzilla entry IIRC.
>
> Andrei

Yep, that's the one. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3780. 
Thanks for looking into it, Andrej.

Andrei