What's going on with std.experimental.lexer?

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 9 23:26:48 PDT 2014


On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:23:59 -0700
Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>
wrote:

> On 6/9/14, 2:15 PM, Dejan Lekic wrote:

> > I am more for "stdx", which is what some developers already use as
> > package name for experimental stuff.
>
> The way I see it is instead of explaining "stdx stands for the
> experimental part of std" I'd rather use std.experimental which
> explains itself.
>
> We added "immutable" after having explained to a million people
> "invariant in this context means immutable".

That and the fact that we'd like to avoid the javax disaster. std.experimental
_should_ be annoyingly long and obvious. We want people to use it, but it
needs to be clear that it's temporary and _experimental_ until it actually
ends up in std.

- Jonathan M Davis


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