std.container: fork in the road
Adrian Matoga via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 17 01:46:41 PDT 2015
On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 06:08:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> 1. Just keep the current spec and deal with it. Some containers
> are and will remain garbage collected because they started as
> such. Add new containers that are better alongside them.
>
> 2. Do break compatibility of containers, mainly by taking
> advantage of them being under-documented. In a way we wouldn't
> break much because not much has been specified. There are,
> however, parts where we'd need to change specification.
>
> 3. Leave std.container alone and move forward with
> std.experimental.collection. I am confident the language and
> its endorsed idioms have reached enough maturity to not make
> this addition into a regular event.
>
2.
std.container has always looked like a draft, discouraging from
actually using it for something serious.
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