New DIP73: D Drafting Library

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On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 23:15:25 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
wrote:
> This looks very similar to std.experimental.  I originally 
> thought that the difference between std.experimental and this 
> library was going to be how it was used.
>
> std.experimental:
>    module that may become part of the standard libary later
>
> your proposed library "mars"?:
>    modules that will probably not become a part of the standard 
> library.  They are "addons" to the standard library.  i.e. 
> Maybe you would like the SDL library, but it doesn't make sense 
> to include in the standard library because it it not useful to 
> everyone.  For these kinds of libraries it would be nice to 
> have a set of community supported libraries that shouldn't be 
> in the standard library but are still useful to a subset of the 
> community.
>
> However, it appears that this proposal is just another version 
> of std.experimental.

This is what I originally though as well. Personally I think what 
you just described would be much more useful. It really feels 
like this is just another std.experimental with only subtle 
distinctions. I don't think it adds much value.